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Extent of Mycobacterium bovis transmission among animals of dairy and beef cattle and deer farms in South Korea determined by variable-number tandem repeats typing.
Veterinary microbiology - 17 Apr 2015
Je Sungmo, Ku Bok Kyung, Jeon Bo-Young, Kim Jae-Myoung, Jung Suk-Chan, Cho Sang-Nae
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Identifying sources of Mycobacterium bovis transmission would be essential for establishing effective control programs of bovine tuberculosis (TB), a major zoonosis threatening human health worldwide. As an effort to determine the extent of M. bovis transmission among dairy and beef cattle and deer populations, a mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU)-variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR) typing...
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