Tuberculosis in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Peninsular Malaysia

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1481-1487

  Ong, B L ^a   Ngeow, Y F ^b   Razak, M F A Abdul ^c   Yakubu, Y ^a   Zakaria, Z ^a   Mutalib, A R ^a   Hassan, L ^a   Ng, H F ^b   Verasahib, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c Peninsular Malaysia ^*  (Malaysia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Captive Asian elephants; Elephant handlers; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Non tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM); Peninsular Malaysia

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELEPHANT; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROPREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELEPHANTS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MALAYSIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84878827969     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000265     Document Type: Article

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