Human and Animal Infections with Mycobacterium microti, Scotland

Abstract

During 1994–2005, we isolated Mycobacterium microti from 5 animals and 4 humans. Only 1 person was immunocompromised. Spoligotyping showed 3 patterns: vole type, llama type, and a new variant llama type.

Keywords

• Tuberculosis
• zoonoses
• domestic animals
• wild animals
• zoo
• immunocompromised patients