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Mycobacterium caprae infection in humans.
Expert review of anti-infective therapy - 1 Dec 2014
Prodinger Wolfgang M, Indra Alexandra, Koksalan Orhan K, Kilicaslan Zeki, Richter Elvira
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium caprae, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, causes tuberculosis (TB) in man and animals. Some features distinguish M. caprae from its epidemiological twin, Mycobacterium bovis: M. caprae is evolutionarily older, accounts for a smaller burden of zoonotic TB and is not globally distributed, but primarily restricted to European countries. M. caprae occurs only in a low proportion of...
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