Outbreak of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae in a zoological garden

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 387-392

  Pate, M ^a,h   Svara T ^b,h   Gombac M ^b,h   Paller, T ^b,h   Zolnir Dovc M ^c,h   Emersic I ^d,h   Prodinger, W M ^e,h   Bartos M ^f,h   Zdovc, I ^a,h   Krt, B ^a,h   Pavlik, I ^f,h   Cvetnic Z ^g,h   Pogacnik M ^b,h   Ocepek, M ^a,h  

^a Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Slovenia)

^d Zoo Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^g CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CAMEL; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SLOVENIA; TUBERCULOSIS; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BISON; CAMELS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SLOVENIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CAPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM;

EID: 33749339226     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: 14390450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2006.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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