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Tuberculosis Caused byMycobacterium orygisin Dairy Cattle and Captured Monkeys in Bangladesh: a New Scenario of Tuberculosis in South Asia
25 Nov 2016
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium orygis, commonly known as the oryx bacillus and a newly proposed Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex subspecies, was isolated from 18 cattle in a dairy farm and two captured rhesus monkeys in a zoo in Bangladesh. All the infected animals had tuberculosis lesions in their lungs, suggesting transmission and infection with M. orygis by an airborne route. The 20 isolates were analysed using a range of...
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