Human Mycobacterium bovis infection in Castile and León (Spain), 2006–2015
| Autor: | Octavio Miguel Rivero-Lezcano, Susana García-de Cruz, Almudena Tinajas-Puertas, Luis López-Urrutia-Lorente, Teresa Nebreda-Mayoral, Ramiro López-Medrano, M. Fe Brezmes-Valdivieso, Nieves Gutiérrez-Zufiaurre, Cristina Labayru-Echeverría |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Tuberculosis Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment 030106 microbiology Annual incidence Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Mycobacterium bovis biology business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Clinical course Immunosuppression Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Spain Female business |
| Zdroj: | Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.). 37:19-24 |
| ISSN: | 2529-993X |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION The annual incidence of tuberculosis (TB) from Mycobacterium bovis in humans has considerably declined in industrialised countries since the early twentieth century. The objective of this study was to determine the epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with this illness in Castile and Leon (CyL). METHODS Retrospective study of all M. bovis TB cases in CyL over a 10-year period, comparing the risk factors, the epidemiology and the clinical course between pulmonary (PTB) and extrapulmonary TB (EPTB). RESULTS 75 cases of TB were due to M. bovis: 45 PTB and 31 EPTB. The annual incidence of TB due to M. bovis was 0.3 cases per 100,000. It remained stable between the first and second five-year period (0.27 vs. 0.33, p=0.656). However, the overall incidence of TB fell in both five-year periods (13.58 vs. 10.71, p |
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