Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Elephant-to-Human Transmission of Tuberculosis, 2009

Rendi Murphree

, Jon V. Warkentin, John R. Dunn, William Schaffner, and Timothy F. Jones

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R. Murphree); Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (R. Murphree, J.V. Warkentin, J.R. Dunn, T.F. Jones); Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (W. Schaffner, T.F. Jones)

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Tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion timeline for 13 employees who worked in the quarantine area of an elephant refuge, Tennessee, USA, 2009. Gray, exposure to quarantine barn; black, negative TST result; red, positive TST result; yellow, elephant L positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Figure. Tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion timeline for 13 employees who worked in the quarantine area of an elephant refuge, Tennessee, USA, 2009. Gray, exposure to quarantine barn; black, negative TST result; red, positive TST result; yellow, elephant L positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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