Simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis in an apparentlyimmunocompetent patient
Date
2013-09-17
Authors
Ereqat, Suheir
Bar-Gal, Gila Kahila
Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed
Azmi, Kifaya
Eshtaieh, Issa
Greenblatt, Charles L.
Abdeen, Ziad
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Publisher
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains the main cause
of human tuberculosis (TB), with an unknown proportion
of cases caused by M. bovis. Here we describe
a case of pulmonary TB caused by mixed infection as
studied from sequential sputum sampling and isolation
of M. tuberculosis and M. bovis using a reverse
dot blot (RDB) assay.