<i>Mycobacterium microti</i>Infection in Free-Ranging Wild Boar, Spain, 2017–2019
Bernat Pérez de Val, A. Ballester Sanz, Mercè Soler, Alberto Allepuz, Lorraine Michelet, María Laura Boschiroli, Enríc Vidal
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-10
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
- Outbreak
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Biology
- Wild boar
- Virology
- Tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Mycobacterium
- Microbiology