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Current knowledge and pending challenges in zoonosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis: a review.
Research in veterinary science - 1 Oct 2014
Pérez-Lago Laura, Navarro Yurena, García-de-Viedma Darío
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis is both the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and a zoonotic pathogen. In humans, considerably fewer cases of TB are caused by M. bovis than M. tuberculosis; nevertheless, diagnostic limitations mean that currently available data on prevalence grossly underestimate the true dimension of the problem. The routes of transmission from animals to humans are well known and include direct...
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