Molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis isolated in the south of Brazil

Bovine tuberculosis is a major infectious disease of the cattle. In this study, 85 M. bovis isolates from 162 lymph nodes, obtained from a herd of cattle on a farm in southern Brazil, were evaluated using spoligotyping and VNTR. The strains were grouped into five clusters and five orphans, showing a...

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Main Authors: Daniela Fernandes Ramos, Ana Bárbara Scholante Silva, Michel Quevedo Fagundes, Andrea von Groll, Pedro Eduardo Almeida da Silva, Odir Antônio Dellagostin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2014-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822014000200039&lng=en&tlng=en