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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 1296-1299Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.100314
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- National Geographic Society
- WildiZe Foundation
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Seven outbreaks involving increasing numbers of banded mongoose troops and high death rates have been documented. We identified a Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, M. mungi sp. nov., as the causative agent among banded mongooses that live near humans in Chobe District, Botswana. Host spectrum and transmission dynamics remain unknown.
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