Mycobacterium caprae Infection in Captive Borneo Elephant, Japan

Abstract

In 2016, disseminated tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae was diagnosed in a captive Borneo elephant in Japan. The bacterium was initially identified from clinical isolates. An isolate collected during a relapse showed isoniazid monoresistance and a codon 315 katG mutation.

Keywords

• Borneo elephant
• disseminated tuberculosis
• Mycobacterium caprae
• Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections
• regions of difference
• whole genome sequence