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 2

Figure 2. Proportion and regression lines of Mycobacterium caprae isolates (black dots, continuous line) and M. caprae–infected herds (white triangles, dashed lines) of the total number of M. tuberculosis complex isolates and M. tuberculosis complex–infected herds identified in cattle during 2004–2009. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.

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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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