Current knowledge and pending challenges in zoonosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis: A review

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 97, Issue S, 2014, Pages S94-S100

  Pérez Lago, Laura ^a,b,c   Navarro, Yurena ^a,b,c,d   García de Viedma, Darío ^a,b,c,d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

M. bovis; Tuberculosis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CHEESE; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CAPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTTI; MYCOBACTERIUM PINNIPEDII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RAW FOOD; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BOVINE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GENOTYPE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84922552887     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: 15322661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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