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Emerg Infect Dis
; 23(3): 555-557, 2017 03.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28221114
RESUMO
Postmortem examination of a wild Asian elephant at Rajiv Gandhi National Park, India, revealed nodular lesions, granulomas with central caseation, and acid-fast bacilli in the lungs. PCR and nucleotide sequencing confirmed the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This study indicates that wild elephants can harbor M. tuberculosis that can become fatal.