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Molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis isolates in Argentina: first description of a person-to-person transmission case.
Zoonoses and public health - 1 Sept 2010
Etchechoury I, Valencia G Echeverría, Morcillo N, Sequeira M D, Imperiale B, López M, Caimi K, Zumárraga M J, Cataldi A, Romano M I
Abstract excerpt
Bovine tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium bovis, a mycobacterium highly similar to M. tuberculosis that belongs to the M. tuberculosis complex. The main host of M. bovis is cattle but it also affects many other mammalians including humans. Tuberculosis in humans caused by either M. bovis or M. tuberculosis is clinically hard to distinguish. During 2004-2005, samples from 448 patients with diagnosis of TB...
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