DNA Detection Reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Shedding Routes in Its Wildlife Reservoir the Eurasian Wild Boar

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 906-915

  Barasona, J A ^a   Torres, M J ^b   Aznar, J ^b,c   Gortazar C ^a   Vicente, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

bovine tuberculosis; excretion routes; fluorotype MTB; natural infection; nucleic acid amplification; pathogen shedding

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84950000409     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12458     Document Type: Article

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