TY - JOUR AU - Diguimbaye-Djaibé, Colette AU - Hilty, Markus AU - Ngandolo, Richard AU - Mahamat, Hassane AU - Pfyffer, Gaby AU - Baggi, Franca AU - Hewinson, Glyn AU - Tanner, Marcel AU - Zinsstag, Jakob AU - Schelling, Esther T1 - Mycobacterium bovis Isolates from Tuberculous Lesions in Chadian Zebu Carcasses T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 5 SP - 769 SN - 1080-6059 AB - This slaughterhouse study in Chad shows higher proportions of Mycobacterium bovis isolates among Mbororo than Arabe zebu cattle. Spoligotyping shows a homogenetic population structure for M. bovis and lack of spacer 30, as were found in neighboring Cameroon and Nigeria. This finding suggests transborder and ongoing transmission between cattle. KW - Mycobacterium bovis KW - proportion KW - Arab breed KW - Mbororo breed KW - slaughterhouse KW - molecular typing KW - Chad KW - zebu KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1205.050691 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/5/05-0691_article ER - End of Reference