Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003

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Pulmonary Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in Captive Siberian Tiger

Ákos Lantos*, Stefan Niemann†, László Mezősi‡, Endre Sós‡, Károly Erdélyi§, Sándor Dávid¶, Linda M. Parsons#**, Tanja Kubica†, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes†, and Ákos Somoskövi* 

Author affiliations: *Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; †National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany; ‡Budapest Zoological and Botanical Garden, Budapest, Hungary; §Central Veterinary Institute, Budapest, Hungary; ¶Korányi National Institute for Tuberculosis and Respiratory Medicine, Budapest, Hungary; #New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; **University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA

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Figure 2. Spoligotype patterns of the isolate obtained from the Siberian tiger: lane 1; spacer sequences 3–16 and 39–43 are absent); lane 2, control strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv ATCC 27294; lane 3, control strain M. bovis ATCC 19210; lane 4, M. bovis BCG ATCC 27289.

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