Trends of Mycobacterium bovis Isolation and First-Line Anti-tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility Profile: A Fifteen-Year Laboratory-Based Surveillance.

• Main Authors: Miriam Bobadilla-del Valle (Author), Pedro Torres-González (Author), Miguel Enrique Cervera-Hernández (Author), Areli Martínez-Gamboa (Author), Brenda Crabtree-Ramirez (Author), Bárbara Chávez-Mazari (Author), Narciso Ortiz-Conchi (Author), Luis Rodríguez-Cruz (Author), Axel Cervantes-Sánchez (Author), Tomasa Gudiño-Enríquez (Author), Carmen Cinta-Severo (Author), José Sifuentes-Osornio (Author), Alfredo Ponce de León (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes the majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases in humans; however, in developing countries, human TB caused by M. bovis may be frequent but undetected. Human TB caused by M. bovis is considered a zoonosis; transmission is mainly through consumption of unpasteurized dairy p...