Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2021)

Polyresistant Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Human and Sympatric Sheep, Spain, 2017–2018

  • Bernat Pérez de Val,
  • Beatriz Romero,
  • María Teresa Tórtola,
  • Laura Herrera León,
  • Pilar Pozo,
  • Irene Mercader,
  • Jose Luís Sáez,
  • Mariano Domingo,
  • Enric Vidal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2704.204467
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 4
pp. 1241 – 1243

Abstract

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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.

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