Genotyping Mycobacterium bovis from cattle in the Central Pampas of Argentina: temporal and regional trends

Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB), a disease that affects approximately 5% of Argentinean cattle. Among the molecular methods for genotyping, the most convenient are spoligotyping and variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR). A total of 378 samples from bovines w...

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Published in:	Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Main Authors:	Ernesto Shimizu, Analía Macías, Fernando Paolicchi, Gabriel Magnano, Laura Zapata, Analía Fernández, Ana Canal, Sergio Garbaccio, Angel Cataldi, Karina Caimi, Martín Zumárraga
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2014-04-01
Subjects:	bovine TB Mycobacterium bovis spoligotype VNTR
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000200236&lng=en&tlng=en