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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Autores principales: Michalak, K, Austin, C, Diesel, S, Bacon, M J, Zimmerman, P, Maslow, J N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1998
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9621200

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