Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011

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Mycobacterium caprae Infection in Livestock and Wildlife, Spain

Sabrina Rodríguez, Javier Bezos, Beatriz Romero, Lucía de Juan, Julio Álvarez, Elena Castellanos, Nuria Moya, Francisco Lozano, M. Tariq Javed, José L. Sáez-Llorente, Ernesto Liébana, Ana Mateos, Lucas Domínguez, Alicia Aranaz , Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis¹, and The Spanish Network on Surveillance

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (S. Rodríguez, J. Bezos, B. Romero, L. de Juan, J. Álvarez, E. Castellanos, N. Moya, F. Lozano, A. Mateos, L. Domínguez, A. Aranaz); University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (M.T. Javed); Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, y Medio Rural y Marino, Madrid, (J.L. Sáez-Llorente); European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy (E. Liébana)

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Map of Spain showing the distribution of the 2 most frequent Mycobacterium caprae spoligotypes and affected animals: C, cattle; D, red deer; F, fox; G, goats; S, sheep; P, pigs; WB, wild boar. A) Spoligotype SB0157. B) Spoligotype SB0416.

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¹A list of members of The Spanish Network on Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis can be found in the Technical Appendix (www.cdc.gov/EID/content/17/3/532-Techapp.pdf).

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