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Molecular epidemiology of cattle tuberculosis in Mexico through whole-genome sequencing and spoligotyping.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Perea Razo Claudia Angélica, Rodríguez Hernández Elba, Ponce Sergio Iván Román, Milián Suazo Feliciano, Robbe-Austerman Suelee, Stuber Tod, Cantó Alarcón Germinal Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle persists in Mexico, posing a threat to human health. Control of bovine tuberculosis, through the National Program Against Bovine Tuberculosis, has led to the decrease of disease prevalence in most of the country, except for high dairy production regions. Genotyping of M. bovis has been performed mainly by spoligotyping and variable number tandem repeats (VNTR), but higher...
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