With an estimated 9.4 million new cases globally, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major
public health concern. Eighty percent of all cases worldwide occur in 22 high-burden, mainly …

Animal tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-host disease caused by members of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex (MTC). Due to its impact on economy, sanitary standards of milk and …

The distribution of 20 variable regions resulting from insertion-deletion events in the
genomes of the tubercle bacilli has been evaluated in a total of 100 strains of …

Abstract Background The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTC) is a member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

The advancement of genetic techniques has greatly boosted taxonomic studies in recent
years. Within the genus Mycobacterium, 42 new species have been detected since 1990 …

Infections have been the major cause of disease throughout the history of human
populations. With the introduction of antibiotics, it was thought that this problem should …

Molecular epidemiologic studies of tuberculosis (TB) have focused largely on utilizing
molecular techniques to address short-and long-term epidemiologic questions, such as in …

The species within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC) have undergone
numerous taxonomic and nomenclatural changes, leaving the true structure of the MTBC in …

A comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from seals (pinnipeds) in
Australia, Argentina, Uruguay, Great Britain and New Zealand was undertaken to determine …

Bovine tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is a well-known zoonotic disease
which affects cattle world-wide. The public health risk has been alleviated in many countries …