Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2015)

Mycobacterium bovis in Panama, 2013

  • Fermín Acosta,
  • Ekatherina Chernyaeva,
  • Libardo Mendoza,
  • Dilcia Sambrano,
  • Ricardo Correa,
  • Mikhail Rotkevich,
  • Miroslava Tarté,
  • Humberto Hernández,
  • Bredio Velazco,
  • Cecilia de Escobar,
  • Jacobus H. de Waard,
  • Amador Goodridge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2106.141821
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 6
pp. 1059 – 1061

Abstract

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Panama remains free of zoonotic tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis. However, DNA fingerprinting of 7 M. bovis isolates from a 2013 bovine tuberculosis outbreak indicated minimal homology with strains previously circulating in Panama. M. bovis dispersion into Panama highlights the need for enhanced genotype testing to track zoonotic infections.

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