Tuberculosis Studies

• Aranaz, A., E. Liebana, et al, 1996. Spacer oligonucleotide typing of Mycobacterium bovis strains from cattle and other animals: a tool for studying epidemiology of tuberculosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:2734-2740.

• Asseged, B., Lubke-Becker, A., Lemma, E., et al, 2000. Bovine tuberculosis: A cross-sectional and epidemiological study in and around Addis Ababa. Bull Animal Health Prod Africa 48:71–80.

• Biet, F., Boschiroli, M.L., et al, 1995. Zoonotic aspects of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC). Vet. Res. 36:411-436.

• Brosch, R., et al, 2002. A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:3684-3689.

• Brosch, R., Pym, A.S., Gordon, S.V., Cole, S.T., 2001. The evolution of mycobacterial pathogenicity: clues from comparative genomics. Trends Microbiol. 9:452-458.

• Buddle, B.M., Skinner, M.A., Chambers, M.A., 2000. Immunological approaches to the control of tuberculosis in wildlife reservoirs. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 74:1-16.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005. Trends in tuberculosis—United States, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 54:245-249.

• Chiodini, R.J., Van Kruiningen, H.J., 1983. Eastern white-tailed deer as a reservoir of ruminant paratuberculosis. J. Am. Vet. Med Assoc. 182:168-169.

• Clifton-Hadley, R. S., et al, 1998. Recent advances in DNA fingerprinting using spoligotyping—epidemiological applications in bovine tuberculosis. Brit Cattle Vet Assoc. 6:79–82.

• Clifton-Hadley, R. S., Wilesmith, J. W., et al, 1995. The occurrence of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle in and around an area subject to extensive badger (Meles meles) control. Epidemiol. Infect. 114:179-193.

• Collins, D.M., Erasmuson, S.K., Stephens, D.M., et al, 1993. DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium bovis strains by restriction fragment analysis and hybridization with insertion elements IS1081 and IS6110. J Clin Microbiol. 31:1143–1147.

• Communicable Disease Report Weekly. 2001. Enhanced surveillance of Mycobacterium bovis disease in humans in England and Wales from January 2001. Commun. Dis. Rep. Wkly. 11:2-3.

• Communicable Disease Report Weekly. 1998. Enhanced surveillance of Mycobacterium bovis in humans. Commun. Dis. Rep. Wkly. 8:281-284.

• Cosivi, O., et al, 1998. Zoonotic tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in developing countries. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 4:59-70.

• Costello, E., O'Grady, D., Flynn, O., O'Brien, R., et al, 1999. Study of restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and spoligotyping for epidemiological investigation of Mycobacterium bovis infection. J Clin Microbiol. 37:3217–3222.

• Cousins, D.V., 2001. Mycobacterium bovis infection and control in domestic livestock. Rev. Sci. Tech. 20:71-85.

• Cousins, D.V., Williams, S.N., Dawson, D. J., 1999. Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in the Australian population: DNA typing of isolates, 1970–1994. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 3:722–731.

• Cousins, D.V., Williams, S.N., et al, 1993. Use of a repetitive element isolated from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in hybridization studies with Mycobacterium bovis: a new tool for epidemiological studies of bovine tuberculosis. Vet Microbiol. 37:1–17.

• Cousins, D. V., Skuce, R. A., Kazwala, R. R., van Embden, J. D., 1998. Towards a standardized approach to DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium bovis. International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Tuberculosis in Animals Subsection. Int. J. Tuberc. Lung Dis. 2:471-478.

• Daborn, C.J., Grange, J.M., 1993. HIV/AIDS and its implication for the control of animal tuberculosis. Br Vet J 149:405–417.

• Dalovisio, J. R., Setter, M., Mikota-Wells, S., 1992. Rhinoceros' rhinorrhea: cause of an outbreak of infection due to airborne Mycobacterium bovis in zookeepers. Clin Infect Dis 15:598-600.

• Delahay, R. J., Cheeseman, C. L., Clifton-Hadley, R. S., 2001. Wildlife disease reservoirs: the epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infection in the European badger (Meles meles) and other British mammals. Tuberculosis 81:43-49.

• De Lisle, G.W., Mackintosh, C.G., Bengis, R.G., 2001. Mycobacterium bovis in free-living and captive wildlife, including farmeddeer. Rev. Sci. Tech. Off. Int. Epizoot. 20:86-111.

• Drobniewski, F., Balabanova, Y., Nikolayevsky, V., et al, 2005. Drug-resistant tuberculosis, clinical virulence, and the dominance of the Beijing strain family in Russia. JAMA. 2005;293:2726-2731.

• Duffield, B.J., Young, D.A., 1985. Survival of Mycobacterium bovis in defined environmental conditions. Vet Microbiol. 10:193–197.

• Durr, P. A., Clifton-Hadley, R. S., Hewinson, R. G., 2000. Molecular epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis. II. Applications of genotyping. Rev. Sci. Tech. 19:689-701.

• Dye, C., Espinal, M.A., Watt, C.J., Mbiaga, C., Williams, B.G., 2002. Worldwide incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 185:1197-1202.

• Espinal, M.A., Laszlo, A., Simonsen, L., et al, 2001. Global trends in resistance to antituberculosis drugs. N Engl J Med. 344:1294-1303.

• Filliol, I., Ferdinand, S., Negroni, L., Sola, C., Rastogi, N., 2000. Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on variable tandem DNA repeats used alone and in association with spoligotyping. J Clin Microbiol. 38:2520–2524.

• Frothingham, F., Meeker-O'Connell, W. A., 1998. Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem repeats. Microbiology 144:1189-1196.

• Garnier, T. et al, 2003. The complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium bovis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100(13):7877–7882.

• Gezahegn, A., 1991. Analysis of economic losses due to bovine tuberculosis. In: Annual Report of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Gibson, A.L., et al, 2004. Molecular Epidemiology of Disease Due to Mycobacterium bovis in Humans in the United Kingdom. J Clin Microbiol. 42(1):431–434.

• Gillespie, S.H., 2002. Evolution of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: clinical and molecular perspective. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 46:267-274.

• Grange, J.M., Yates, M.D., 1994. Zoonotic aspects of Mycobacterium bovis infection. Vet Microbiol. 40:137–151.

• Granich, R.M., Oh, P., Lewis, B., Porco, T.C., Flood, J., 2005. Multidrug resistance among persons with tuberculosis in California, 1994-2003. JAMA. 293:2732-2739.

• Guiterrez, M., et al, 1995. Differentiation by molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis strains causing tuberculosis in cattle and goats. J Clin Microbiol. 33:2953–2956.

• Haddad, N., et al, 2001. Spoligotype diversity of Mycobacterium bovis strains isolated in France from 1979 to 2000. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:3623-3632.

• Hardie, R. M., Watson, J.M., 1992. Mycobacterium bovis in England and Wales: past, present and future. Epidemiol. Infect. 109:23-33.

• Horgen, L., Sola, C., Devallois, A., Goh, K.S., Rastogi, N,. 1998. Follow up of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in the French West Indies by IS6110-DNA fingerprinting and DR-based spoligotyping. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 21:203–212.

• Kamerbeek, J., Schouls, L., et al, 1997. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35:907-914.

• Kazwala, R.R., Daborn, C.J., Kusiluka, L.J.M., et al, 1998. Isolation of Mycobacterium species from raw milk of pastoral cattle of southern highlands of Tanzania. Trop Anim Health Prod 30:233–239, 1998.

• Kazwala, R., Sinclair, K., Challans, J., Kambarage, D.M., Sharp, J.M., et al, 1997. Zoonotic importance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms in Tanzania: a molecular biology approach. Rabat, Morocco: Actes Editions.

• Kleeberg, H.H., et al, 1984. The tuberculin test in cattle. J African Vet Med Assoc 31:213–225.

• Kremer K, et al, 1999. Comparison of methods based on different molecular epidemiological markers for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: inter-laboratory study of discriminatory power and reproducibility. J Clin Microbiol. 37:2607–2618.

• Menzies, F.D., Neill, S.D., 2000. Cattle-to-cattle transmission of bovine tuberculosis. Vet. J. 160:92-106.

• Michalak, K., Austin, C., et al,1998. Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection as a zoonotic disease: transmission between humans and elephants. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 4:283-287.

• Neill, S.D., Pollock, J.M., et al, 1994. Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle. Vet Microbiol. 40:41–52.

• Niemann, S., Richter, E., Rüsch-Gerdes, S., 2000. Differentiation among members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by molecular and biochemical features: evidence for two pyrazinamide-susceptible subtypes of M. bovis. J Clin Microbiol. 38:152–157.

• Niemann, S., Richter, E., Rüsch-Gerdes, S., 1999. Stability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns and spoligotypes determined by analyzing serial isolates from patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol. 37:409–412.30.

• Njanpop-Lafourcade, B.M., Inwald, J., et al, 2001. Molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis isolates from the Cameroon. J Clin Microbiol. 39:222–227.

• O'Brien, R., Flynn, O., Costello, E., O'Grady, D., Rogers, M., 2000. Identification of a novel DNA probe for strain typing Mycobacterium bovis by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:1723–1730.

• Omer, M.K., Skjerve, E., Woldehiwet, Z., Holstad, G., 2001. A cross-sectional study of bovine tuberculosis in dairy farms in Asmara, Eritrea. Trop Anim Health Prod 33:295–303.

• O`Reilly, L.M., Daborn, C.J., 1995. The epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infection in animals and in man. Tubercle Lung Dis 76:1–46.

• Payeur, J.B., et al, 2002. Bovine Tuberculosis in Michigan Wildlife. Ann NY Acad Sci. 969: 259-261.

• Pritchard, D.G., 1988. A century of bovine tuberculosis 1888–1988: conquest and controversy. J Comp Pathol. 99:357–399.

• Quist C.F., et al, 2002. Paratuberculosis in key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium). J. Wildl. Dis. 38:729-737.

• Robert, J., et al, 1999. A national survey of human Mycobacterium bovis in France. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 3(8):711-714.

• Roring, S., Hughes, M.S., Skuce, R. A., Neill, S. D., 2000. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium bovis directly from bovine tissue specimens by spoligotyping. Vet Microbiol. 74:227–236.

• Serraino, A., Marchetti, G., et al, 1999. Monitoring of transmission of tuberculosis between wild boars and cattle: genotypical analysis of strains by molecular epidemiology techniques. J Clin Microbiol. 37:2766–2771.

• Skuce, R. A., Brittain, D., et al, 1994. Genomic fingerprinting of Mycobacterium bovis from cattle by restriction fragment length analysis. J Clin Microbiol. 32:2387–2392.

• Szewzyk, R., Svenson, S.B., et al, 1995. Molecular epidemiological studies of Mycobacterium bovis infections in humans and animals in Sweden. J Clin Microbiol. 33:3183–3185.

• van Soolingen, D., de Haas, P. E., Haagsma, J., Eger, T., et al, 1994. Use of various genetic markers in differentiation of Mycobacterium bovis strains from animals and humans and for studying epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 32:2425-2433.

• World Health Organization, 2005. Antituberculous Drug Resistance in the World, Report Number 3. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

• Wray, C., 1975. Survival and spread of pathogenic bacteria of veterinary importance within the environment. Vet Bull. 45:543–550.

• Zumarraga, M., et al, 1999. Usefulness of spoligotyping in molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis-related infections in South America. J Clin Microbiol. 37:296–303.