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Anatomical distribution of Mycobacterium bovis genotypes in experimentally infected white-tailed deer.
Veterinary microbiology - 22 Oct 2015
Thacker Tyler C, Palmer Mitchell V, Robbe-Austerman Suelee, Stuber Tod P, Waters W Ray
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) causes tuberculosis in white-tailed deer (WTD). Natural infection of WTD with M. bovis is most closely mimicked by instilling inoculum into palatine tonsillar crypts. One hundred fifty days after intratonsillar inoculation, M. bovis was cultured from 30 tissues originating from 14 deer. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) was performed on the original inoculum, single colonies subcultured...
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