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Genotypic characterization by spoligotyping and VNTR typing of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium caprae isolates from cattle of Tunisia.
Tropical animal health and production - 1 Feb 2014
Lamine-Khemiri Hela, Martínez Remigio, García-Jiménez Waldo Luis, Benítez-Medina Jose Manuel, Cortés Maria, Hurtado Inés, Abassi Mohammed Salah, Khazri Imed, Benzarti Mohammed, Hermoso-de-Mendoza Javier
Abstract excerpt
This work is an approach to the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) bovine infections in Tunisia. A total of 35 MTBC isolates from both lateral retropharyngeal lymph node samples of cattle slaughtered in different Tunisian regions were genotyped by spoligotyping and variable number tandem repeat typing (VNTR)-typing. Spoligotyping allowed to identify two profiles not previously...
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