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- Title
Noninvasive Test for Tuberculosis Detection among Primates.
- Authors
Wolf, Tiffany M.; Mugisha, Lawrence; Shoyama, Fernanda Miyagaki; O'Malley, Melanie J.; Flynn, JoAnne L.; Asiimwe, Benon; Travis, Dominic A.; Singer, Randall S.; Sreevatsan, Srinand
- Abstract
Traditional testing methods have limited epidemiologic studies of tuberculosis among free-living primates. PCR amplification of insertion element IS6110 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from fecal samples was evaluated as a noninvasive screening test for tuberculosis in primates. Active tuberculosis was detected among inoculated macaques and naturally exposed chimpanzees, demonstrating the utility of this test.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS research; PRIMATES; MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; ANIMAL diseases
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 3, p468
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2103.140052