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

• Autores principales: Pedro Torres-Gonzalez (Autor), Orbelin Soberanis-Ramos (Autor), Areli Martinez-Gamboa (Autor), Barbara Chavez-Mazari (Autor), Ma Teresa Barrios-Herrera (Autor), Martha Torres-Rojas (Autor), Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert (Autor), Lourdes Garcia-Garcia (Autor), Mahavir Singh (Autor), Adrian Gonzalez-Aguirre (Autor), Alfredo Ponce de Leon-Garduño (Autor), José Sifuentes-Osornio (Autor), Miriam Bobadilla- (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...