Mycobacterium microti Infection in Free-Ranging Wild Boar, Spain, 2017-2019
Pérez de Val B, Sanz A, Soler M, Allepuz A, Michelet L, Boschiroli ML, Vidal E
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-11
Abstract
Mycobacterium microti is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that causes pathology in many mammals. M. microti infections have been found in some countries in Europe. We report an outbreak of tuberculosis caused by M. microti in wild boars in Spain.
MeSH terms
- Animals
- Swine
- Sus scrofa
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Swine Diseases
- Disease Outbreaks
- History, 21st Century
- Spain
- Public Health Surveillance
- Geography, Medical