title: Mycobacterium bovis in Panama, 2013.
abstract: Panama remains free of zoonotic tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis. However, DNA fingerprinting of 7 M. bovis isolates from a 2013 bovine tuberculosis outbreak indicated minimal homology with strains previously circulating in Panama. M. bovis dispersion into Panama highlights the need for enhanced genotype testing to track zoonotic infections.
authors.forename: Fermín
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Acosta
authors.forename: Ekatherina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chernyaeva
authors.forename: Libardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mendoza
authors.forename: Dilcia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sambrano
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rotkevich
authors.forename: Miroslava
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tarté
authors.forename: Humberto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.forename: Bredio
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Velazco
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Escobar
authors.forename: Jacobus H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: de Waard
authors.forename: Amador
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goodridge
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005838:Genotype; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D058889:Molecular Typing; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D010176:Panama / Q000453:epidemiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history
keywords: Mycobacterium bovis; Panama; biomarker; bovine tuberculosis; genotyping; mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units; single-nucleotide polymorphism; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; whole-genome sequencing; zoonotic tuberculosis