Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the Human/Wildlife interface in a high TB Burden Country

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL1, 2013, Pages 46-52

  Michel, A L ^a,b   Hlokwe, T M ^a,b   Espie, I W ^c   van Zijll Langhout, M ^d,f   Koeppel, K ^e   Lane, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c National Zoological Gardens of South Africa   (South Africa)

^d Provet Wildlife Services   (South Africa)

^e Johannesburg Zoo   (South Africa)

^f Wildlife Vets ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium; Transmission; Tuberculosis; Wildlife human interface

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE/HUMAN INTERFACE;

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS; WILDLIFE/HUMAN INTERFACE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84886821724     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12099     Document Type: Article

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