Mycobacterium caprae Infection in Livestock and Wildlife, Spain

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Rodríguez, Sabrina ; Bezos, Javier ; Romero, Beatriz ; de Juan, Lucía ; Álvarez, Julio ; Castellanos, Elena ; Moya, Nuria ; Lozano, Francisco ; Javed, M. Tariq ; Sáez-Llorente, José L. ; Liébana, Ernesto ; Mateos, Ana ; Domínguez, Lucas ; Aranaz, Alicia ; Tuberculosis, Monitoring of Animal
• Corporate Authors:
  The Spanish Network on Surveillance
• Description:
  Mycobacterium caprae is a pathogen that can infect animals and humans. To better understand the epidemiology of M. caprae, we spoligotyped 791 animal isolates. Results suggest infection is widespread in Spain, affecting 6 domestic and wild animal species. The epidemiology is driven by infections in caprids, although the organism has emerged in cattle.
• Subjects:
  Animals Animals, Wild Bacteria Bacterial Typing Techniques Cattle Deer Dispatch Epidemiology Foxes Goats Livestock Molecular Characterization Molecular Epidemiology Mycobacterium Mycobacterium Caprae Oligonucleotides Spain Spoligotyping Sus Scrofa Swine Tuberculosis Tuberculosis And Other Mycobacteria Zoonoses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 17(3):532-535.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:da33f86afe1d68610da788681e97ea7e83b2a0d72477f2181e0a2bf138a5b4cf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18336/cdc_18336_DS1.pdf
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