Why doesn't bovine tuberculosis transmit between humans?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 552-553

  Berg, Stefan ^a   Smith, Noel H ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CLADISTICS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST ADAPTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PHOPR GENE; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84908491200     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.08.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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