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. 1986 Sep;41(9):685–687. doi: 10.1136/thx.41.9.685

Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis.

E G Wilkins, R J Griffiths, C Roberts
PMCID: PMC460431  PMID: 3538491

Abstract

During 1969-84 Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from 20 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. This represented less than 1% of the total cases of respiratory tuberculosis confirmed bacteriologically at the Liverpool Public Health Laboratory during this period. All 20 patients were considered to have reactivated disease and all presented with the typical features of respiratory tuberculosis. During the same period four cases of pulmonary infection by Mycobacterium africanum were recognised. This organism is difficult to differentiate from M bovis and failure to distinguish the two mycobacteria could lead to a misleading epidemiological picture of bovine tuberculosis in man.

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