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Epidemiological tracing of bovine tuberculosis in Switzerland, multilocus variable number of tandem repeat analysis of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium caprae

BACKGROUND: After 15 years of absence, in 2013 bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium (M.) bovis and M. caprae, reemerged in the Swiss dairy cattle population. In order to identify the sources of infection as well as the spread of the agents, molecular-epidemiologic tracing by MIRU-VNTR...

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Autores principales: Ghielmetti, Giovanni, Scherrer, Simone, Friedel, Ute, Frei, Daniel, Suter, Dominique, Perler, Lukas, Wittenbrink, Max M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28222182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172474