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Infection with Mycobacterium microti in animals in France
Lorraine Michelet1, Krystel de Cruz1, Gina Zanella1
1Université Paris-Est, French Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), Laboratory for Animal Health, Maisons-Alfort, France.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 26, 2014
Abstract:
We describe here 35 animal cases of tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti in France (2002-2014). Recently, molecular tools that overcome the difficulty of confirming infection by this potentially zoonotic agent have revealed an increasing number of cases, suggesting that its prevalence may have been underestimated.

