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Phenotypic and molecular typing of tuberculous and nontuberculous Mycobacterium species from slaughtered pigs in Egypt.
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc - 1 Jan 2009
Mohamed Amr M, Abou El-Ella Ghada A, Nasr Essam A
Abstract excerpt
A total of 745 slaughtered pigs were examined during routine meat inspection for suspected tuberculous lesions. Specimens from suspected lesions were collected for conventional mycobacteriologic examinations. Suspected mycobacterial colonies were subjected to molecular typing based on the Mycobacterium species-specific intergenic spacer (IGS) target. The study resulted in detection of suspected lesions in 110...
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