Polyresistant <i>Mycobacterium bovis</i> Infection in Human and Sympatric Sheep, Spain, 2017–2018
Bernat Pérez de Val, Beatriz Romero, Teresa Tórtola, Laura Herrera León, Pilar Pozo, Irene Mercader, José Luis Sáez, Mariano Domingo, et al. (9 authors)
Emerging infectious diseases · 2021-03
Abstract
The main etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB) in livestock is Mycobacterium bovis; human TB cases caused by M. bovis are rare. Analysis of a TB outbreak caused by polyresistant M. bovis involving a human and sympatric sheep in Spain suggests local circulation of drug-resistant M. bovis strains among livestock.
MeSH terms
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Livestock
- Sympatric speciation
- Outbreak
- Tuberculosis
- Biology
- Virology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Veterinary medicine