AN OUTBREAK OF TUBERCULOSIS BYMYCOBACTERIUM BOVISIN COATIS (NASUA NASUA)
| Autor: | P. S. Murakami, Sonia Regina Brockelt, Ricardo Guilherme D'Otaviano de Castro Vilani, Sueli M. Nakatani, Andrea Pires do Santos, Ana Laura Grazziotin, Alexander Welker Biondo, Ivan Roque de Barros Filho, Irina Nastassja Riediger, Sonia Maria Biesdorf, Fernanda Monego, John L. Ho, Renata Benício Neves Fuverki, Grazielle Cristina Garcia Soresini, Andrea L. Gibson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculin Coati Disease Outbreaks law.invention Microbiology law medicine Animals Polymerase chain reaction Mycobacterium bovis General Veterinary biology Procyonidae Outbreak Nasua General Medicine bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Immunology Animal Science and Zoology Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 43:338-341 |
| ISSN: | 1937-2825 1042-7260 |
| DOI: | 10.1638/2010-0043.1 |
| Popis: | Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, which includes Mycobacterium bovis, infrequently causes severe or lethal disease in captive wildlife populations. A dead coati from a wildlife triage center showing pulmonary lesions compatible with tuberculosis had raised suspicion of a potential disease caused by mycobacteria species and was further investigated. Four native coatis (Nasua nasua) with suspected mycobacterial infection were sedated, and bronchoalveolar lavages and tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) were performed. All animals tested positive upon TST. Mycobacterial culturing, Ziehl-Neelsen staining, and genetic testing were performed on postmortem samples and the etiologic agent was identified as M. bovis. Molecular genetic identification using a polymerase chain reaction panel was crucial to achieving a definitive diagnosis. |
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