The primary isolation of a Mycobacterium sp. of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
from an infected animal provides a definitive diagnosis of tuberculosis. However, as …

We propose a new coefficient, the adjusted Wallace coefficient (AW), and corresponding
confidence intervals (CI) as quantitative measures of congruence between typing methods …

The control of any infectious disease of livestock is made more difficult by the presence of a
wildlife reservoir, as the reservoir is often poorly observed and difficult to manage. This …

This www. Mbovis. org website and associated databases were initiated in response to the
need of the Mycobacterium bovis molecular typing community for standardisation of …

Mycobacterium bovis is the main causative agent of animal tuberculosis (TB) and it may
cause TB in humans. Molecular typing of M. bovis isolates provides precise epidemiological …

Mycobacterium bovis populations in countries with persistent bovine tuberculosis usually
show a prevalent spoligotype with a wide geographical distribution. This study applied …

The usefulness of variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) typing based on limited numbers
of loci has previously proven inferior compared to IS 6110‐RFLP typing when applied to the …

Members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) cause tuberculosis (TB) in both
animals and humans. In this article, three animal-adapted MTC strains that are endemic to …

The estimated herd and within herd Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection prevalence in
the southern Chile regions are 0.3 and 0.67%, respectively. However, higher rates of …

Bovine tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium bovis and affects primarily cattle, among
many other mammal species. In this study, 250 isolates of M. bovis collected from pigs …