Humans as Source of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Cattle, Spain
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trols, are required to better defi ne their pathogenic potential. This work was supported by the Global Emerging Infections and Surveillance System, a Division of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center and in part by the National Institutes of Health under KL2 RR024994. The study protocol DOD NAMRU3.2000.0002 (IRB Protocol No. 096) was hospital-based surveillance for enteric pathogens associated with severe diarrhea in Egyptian children.
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