Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011
Dispatch
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
, Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis1, and The Spanish Network on SurveillanceTable 2
Variable number tandem repeat analysis of isolates from 10 farms that presented mixed Mycobacterium caprae infection (different spoligotype patterns), Spain, 1992–2009*
| Farm | Animal | Spoligotype | No. alleles at locus |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETR-A | ETR-B | ETR-D | QUB3232 | QUB 11a | QUB 11b | MIRU 26 | MIRU 31 | |||
| 1 |
Goat |
SB0416 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| SB0866 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
||
| 2 |
Goat |
SB0416 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| SB0157 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
||
| 3 |
Goat |
SB0416 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| SB0415 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
||
| 4 |
Cattle |
SB0157 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| SB1081 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
||
| 5 |
Cattle |
SB0157 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| SB1081 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
||
| 6 |
Goat |
SB0157 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| SB1078 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
||
| 7 |
Goat |
SB1084 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5† | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| SB1889 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
5† |
3 |
5 |
4 |
||
| 8 |
Cattle |
SB0157 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| SB1081 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
||
| 9 |
Cattle |
SB0416 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| SB0157 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
||
| 10 | Goat | SB0973 | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| SB0157 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | – | 2 | 5 | – | ||
*–, no amplification.
†Gel band of ≈1,800 bp. Sequencing showed that insertion sequence IS6110 is inserted within the third repetition of QUB11a.
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).
