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. 2014 Oct;22(10):552-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.08.007. Epub 2014 Aug 29.

Why doesn't bovine tuberculosis transmit between humans?

Stefan Berg  1 , Noel H Smith  2
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Why doesn't bovine tuberculosis transmit between humans?

Stefan Berg et al. Trends Microbiol. 2014 Oct.

Abstract

Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important bacterial pathogen of man. This human-adapted pathogen was ancestral to a lineage of animal-adapted strains which cause similar disease in many different mammals but are unable to transmit between humans. How did the animal-adapted strains lose the ability to transmit between humans?

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