Infection with Mycobacterium microti in animals in France.

J Clin Microbiol

Université Paris-Est, French Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), Laboratory for Animal Health, Maisons-Alfort, France

Published: March 2015

We describe here 35 animal cases of tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti in France (2002-2014). Recently, molecular tools that overcome the difficulty of confirming infection by this potentially zoonotic agent have revealed an increasing number of cases, suggesting that its prevalence may have been underestimated.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390619PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02713-14DOI Listing

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