title: Mycobacterium bovis strains causing smear-positive human tuberculosis, Southwest Ireland.
abstract: Mycobacterium bovis caused 3% of human tuberculosis cases in southwest Ireland during 1998-2006. Of 11 M. bovis strains genotyped, 9 belonged to common animal spoligotypes. Seven strains were from sputum and potential sources of human-centered disease transmission. Ten-locus variable-number tandem repeat typing gave unique strain profiles and would detect disease outbreaks.
authors.affiliation: University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Olabisi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ojo
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheehan
authors.forename: G Daniel
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Corcoran
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okker
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gover
authors.forename: Vladyslav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nikolayevsky
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dale
authors.forename: Stephen V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Drobniewski
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Prentice
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002417:Cattle; D016358:Contact Tracing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences / Q000235:genetics; D007494:Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000032:analysis; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D009841:Oligonucleotides