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Isolation and comparative genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from cattle and their attendants in South India.
Scientific reports - 29 Nov 2019
Palaniyandi Kannan, Kumar Narender, Veerasamy Maroudam, Kabir Refaya Ahmed, Dolla Chandrakumar, Balaji Subramanyam, Baskaran Dhanaraj, Thiruvengadam Kannan, Rajendran Ananthi, Narayanan Sujatha, Raj Dhinakar, Swaminathan Soumya, Peacock Sharon J
Abstract excerpt
The major human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rarely reported to cause disease in other animals. Cases in livestock are thought to occur through contact with infected handlers, but previous studies evaluating putative livestock-human transmission used typing techniques with limited resolution. Here, we undertook cross-sectional surveillance for tuberculosis in 271 livestock handlers and 167 cattle on...
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