Report of mycobacteria isolated from domestic and wildlife species during 2004-2008

TRAVERSA MARÍA JULIA; JORGE MARÍA CRISTINA; GARBACCIO, SERGIO; DRAGHI MARÍA GRACIELA; ABDALA, ALEJANDRO; TARABLA, HÉCTOR; SCHNEIDER, MANUEL; MAGNANO, GABRIEL; ZUMÁRRAGA, MARTÍN JOSÉ; RODRÍGUEZ LILIANA; HUERTAS PABLO; MORSELLA, CLAUDIA; PAOLICCHI, FERNANDO

ANALECTA VETERINARIA

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA

Año: 2011 vol. 31 p. 10 - 14

Detection and identification of bovine tuberculosis and its differentiation frommicobacteriosis is fundamental during diagnoses. That is why mycobacteria laboratories improvementbecomes essential in public health and veterinary medicine services. The objectiveof the present research is to differentiate Mycobacterium bovis and nontuberculous mycobacteriasin isolates cultured from domestic and wildlife species from seven Argentinean provincesduring 2004-2008. Differentiation was based on biochemical tests, phenotypic characteristicsand M. bovis spolygotyping. Biochemical and phenotypic identification resulted in 20 M. bovisstrains, 18 of them were confirmed by spolygotyping, and 34 nontuberculous mycobacteriastrains. Thirteen species were characterized and all of them were grouped consideringbiological risk and pathogenic potential reported in humans and/or animals. Here we havereached advances in tuberculosis and micobacteriosis diagnoses in veterinary medicine. Inthis area diagnoses are often based on micro and macroscopic observation of the tuberclesand skin test results. These advances are not minor as zoonotic tuberculosis is still a publichealth problem in Latin America.