Why doesn’t bovine tuberculosis transmit between humans?

• Autores: Stefan Berg, Noel H. Smith
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 22, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 552-553
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important bacterial pathogen of man. This human-adapted pathogen was ancestral to a lineage of animal-adapted strains which cause similar disease in many different mammals but are unable to transmit between humans. How did the animal-adapted strains lose the ability to transmit between humans?