Simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis in an apparentlyimmunocompetent patient

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2013-09-17Author
Ereqat, Suheir
Bar-Gal, Gila Kahila
Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed
Azmi, Kifaya
Eshtaieh, Issa
Greenblatt, Charles L.
Abdeen, Ziad
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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.