Natural reservoir, zoonotic tuberculosis & interface with human tuberculosis: An unsolved question

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-6

  Bose, Mridula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BCG VACCINE; PYRAZINAMIDE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BCG VACCINATION; DAIRYING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FARMING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEASLES; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERTUSSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 55849122991     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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