title: Infection of great apes and a zoo keeper with the same Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotype.
abstract: An animal keeper was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) after bi-annual screening for latent TB infection in zoo employees. In the same period, several bonobos of the zoo were suffering from TB as well. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from both the animal keeper and the bonobos appeared identical. We provide evidence that the animals infected their keeper.
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pulmonary diseases and Tuberculosis, P.O. Box 30001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands, o.w.akkerman@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: Onno W
authors.initials: OW
authors.lastname: Akkerman
authors.forename: Tjip S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: van der Werf
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rietkerk
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eger
authors.forename: Dick
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Soolingen
authors.forename: Kees
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van der Loo
authors.forename: Adri G M
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: van der Zanden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018419:Primate Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology*