Tuberculosis in Swiss captive Asian elephants: microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis characterized by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and whole-genome sequencing

Zoonotic tuberculosis is a risk for human health, especially when animals are in close contact with humans. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from several organs, including lung tissue and gastric mucosa, of three captive elephants euthanized in a Swiss zoo. The elephants presented weight loss...

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Autores principales: Ghielmetti, Giovanni, Coscolla, Mireia, Ruetten, Maja, Friedel, Ute, Loiseau, Chloé, Feldmann, Julia, Steinmetz, Hanspeter W., Stucki, David, Gagneux, Sebastien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29116204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15278-9

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