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Tuberculosis in imported hyrax (Procavia capensis) caused by an unusual variant belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Nov 1994
Cousins D V, Peet R L, Gaynor W T, Williams S N, Gow B L
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis was diagnosed in an adult female hyrax (Procavia capensis) imported from South Africa and held in a captive colony at the Perth Zoo. An organism similar to Mycobacterium microti was isolated from the lung of this animal and the lung of an adult male hyrax in the colony. The organism...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Zoo
- Australia
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Guinea Pigs
- Hyraxes
- Male
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Rabbits
- South Africa
- Tuberculosis
- Virulence