Mycobacterium orygis Lymphadenitis in New York, USA

Mycobacterium orygis Lymphadenitis in New York, USA

We report a case of lymphadenitis caused by Mycobacterium orygis in an immunocompetent person in Stony Brook, New York, USA. Initial real-time PCR assay failed to provide a final subspecies identification within the M. tuberculosis complex, but whole-genome sequencing characterized the isolate as M....

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Main Authors: Luis A. Marcos, Eric D. Spitzer, Rahul Mahapatra, Yupo Ma, Tanya A. Halse, Joseph Shea, Michelle Isabelle, Pascal Lapierre, Vincent E. Escuyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
mycobacterium
orygis
antelope
waterbuck
rhesus monkey
oryx
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/10/17-0490_article

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