TY - JOUR AU - Acosta, Fermín AU - Chernyaeva, Ekatherina AU - Mendoza, Libardo AU - Sambrano, Dilcia AU - Correa, Ricardo AU - Rotkevich, Mikhail AU - Tarté, Miroslava AU - Hernández, Humberto AU - Velazco, Bredio AU - de Escobar, Cecilia AU - de Waard, Jacobus AU - Goodridge, Amador T1 - Mycobacterium bovis in Panama, 2013 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 6 SP - 1059 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Panama remains free of zoonotic tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis. However, DNA fingerprinting of 7 M. bovis isolates from a 2013 bovine tuberculosis outbreak indicated minimal homology with strains previously circulating in Panama. M. bovis dispersion into Panama highlights the need for enhanced genotype testing to track zoonotic infections. KW - zoonotic tuberculosis KW - bovine tuberculosis KW - biomarker KW - Mycobacterium bovis KW - whole-genome sequencing KW - single nucleotide polymorphism KW - mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units KW - genotyping KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - single-nucleotide polymorphism KW - Panama DO - 10.3201/eid2106.141821 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/6/14-1821_article ER - End of Reference