Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2019)

Mycobacterium microti Infection in Free-Ranging Wild Boar, Spain, 2017–2019

  • Bernat Pérez de Val,
  • Albert Sanz,
  • Mercè Soler,
  • Alberto Allepuz,
  • Lorraine Michelet,
  • María Laura Boschiroli,
  • Enric Vidal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2511.190746
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 11
pp. 2152 – 2154

Abstract

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Mycobacterium microti is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that causes pathology in many mammals. M. microti infections have been found in some countries in Europe. We report an outbreak of tuberculosis caused by M. microti in wild boars in Spain.

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