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. 2016 Mar;22(3):570-2.
doi: 10.3201/eid2203.151929.

Mycobacterium orygis-Associated Tuberculosis in Free-Ranging Rhinoceros, Nepal, 2015

Jeewan Thapa, Sarad Paudel, Amir Sadaula, Yogendra Shah, Bhagwan Maharjan, Gretchen E Kaufman, Deborah McCauley, Kamal P Gairhe, Toshio Tsubota, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Chie Nakajima

Mycobacterium orygis-Associated Tuberculosis in Free-Ranging Rhinoceros, Nepal, 2015

Jeewan Thapa et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Indian rhinoceros; Mycobacterium orygis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; Nepal; Rhinoceros unicornis; bacteria; free-ranging rhinoceros; greater one-horned rhinoceros; tuberculosis; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria.

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Phylogeny of Mycobacterium orygis isolates as determine on the basis of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units–variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) results of 22 loci. The unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean dendrogram was drawn by using MIRU-VNTRplus software (http://www.miru-vntrplus.org). The order of MIRU-VNTR is as follows, left to right: 154, 424, 577, 580, 802, 960, 1644, 1955, 2059, 2163b, 2165, 2401, 2461, 2531, 2687, 2996, 3007, 3192, 3690, 4052, 4156 and 4348. *Isolates from (1), †isolate from (8), ‡isolates from (2), §isolate from this study. Bold MIRU-VNTR copy number of locus 424 in rhinoceros isolate indicates a single locus difference in MIRU-VNTR type from the largest cluster. X, unamplifiable. Scale bar indicates genetic distance
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