Prevalence of latent and active tuberculosis among dairy farm workers exposed to cattle infected by Mycobacterium bovis.

• Main Authors: Pedro Torres-Gonzalez (Author), Orbelin Soberanis-Ramos (Author), Areli Martinez-Gamboa (Author), Barbara Chavez-Mazari (Author), Ma Teresa Barrios-Herrera (Author), Martha Torres-Rojas (Author), Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert (Author), Lourdes Garcia-Garcia (Author), Mahavir Singh (Author), Adrian Gonzalez-Aguirre (Author), Alfredo Ponce de Leon-Garduño (Author), José Sifuentes-Osornio (Author), Miriam Bobadilla- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Human tuberculosis caused by M. bovis is a zoonosis presently considered sporadic in developed countries, but remains a poorly studied problem in low and middle resource countries. The disease in humans is mainly attributed to unpasteurized dairy products consumption. However, transmissi...