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Virginia Tech Professor discovers new TB pathogen
//04 Oct 2010
Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, discovered a novel tuberculosis (TB) species in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
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Alexander discovered that banded mongoose - a species common in central and eastern Africa - that were living closely with humans in northern Botswana were dying from a mysterious, tuberculosis-like disease.
She and colleagues have now identified the pathogen as M. mungi sp. nov., .....
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//04 Oct 2010
Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, discovered a novel tuberculosis (TB) species in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
snip
Alexander discovered that banded mongoose - a species common in central and eastern Africa - that were living closely with humans in northern Botswana were dying from a mysterious, tuberculosis-like disease.
She and colleagues have now identified the pathogen as M. mungi sp. nov., .....
more at -
