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Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission between cattle and man - a case report.

We describe a case of transmission of Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis infection from a man to cattle. M. tuberculosis was isolated from the bronchial lymph nodes of a heifer that reacted positively to bovine tuberculin but showed no gross pathological changes at slaughter. The cattle owner died of tuberculosis the same year the heifer was diagnosed with M. tuberculosis infection. M. tuberculosis strains isolated from the heifer and its owner were genotyped by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable-number tandem repeat (MIRUVNTR) typing, which revealed identical MIRU profi les for both isolates. This is the fi rst described case of M. tuberculosis infection in cattle and the fi rst case of human-to-animal transmission of M. tuberculosis in Croatia.

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