Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2018)

Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis Infection in a Domestic Rabbit, Germany

  • Daniela Klotz,
  • Stefanie A. Barth,
  • Wolfgang Baumgärtner,
  • Marion Hewicker-Trautwein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171692
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3
pp. 596 – 598

Abstract

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Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis is an opportunistic pathogen present in soil and dust. We report M. avium subsp. hominissuis infection found in a domestic rabbit in Hannover, Germany, in May 2017.

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