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Mycobacterium kansasii infection in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus sciureus).

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1995-12
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Mount Kenya University
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Brammer, D., O’Rourke, C., Health, L., CE, C., GK, P., & Hofing, G. (1995). Mycobacterium kansasii infection in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus sciureus). Mount Kenya University. http://erepository.mku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5461
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This report documents asymptomatic infections of Mycobacterium kansasii in four of five tuberculin positive squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus sciureus). The mycobacterial DNA amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from a bronchial lymph node had no affinity for the species specific probes of M. tuberculosis, M. avium, and M. intracellulare, thus allowing the presumptive diagnosis of an atypical mycobacterial infection. Infection by Mycobacterium kansasii was confirmed by culture of bronchial lymph nodes from three monkeys. The source of the infection was never identified.
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