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Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection as a zoonotic disease: transmission between humans and elephants.
Between 1994 and 1996, three elephants from an exotic animal farm in Illinois died of pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In October 1996, a fourth living elephant was culture-positive for M. tuberculosis. Twenty-two handlers at the farm were screened for tuberculosis (TB); eleven h...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1998
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640151/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9621200 |