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Experimental infection of cattle with <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> isolates shows the attenuation of the human tubercle bacillus for cattle
2017-10-13
Abstract excerpt
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is the collective term given to the group of bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) in mammals. It has been reported that M. tuberculosis H37Rv, a standard reference MTBC strain, is attenuated in cattle compared to Mycobacterium bovis . However, as M. tuberculosis H37Rv was isolated in the early 1930s, and genetic variants are known to exist, we sought to revisit th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8ec90f6d-cda2-5673-99e2-bfbd33e150bd
- DOI
- 10.1101/202663
