Volume 8, Number 11, November 2002

Tuberculosis Genotyping Network, United States

Human Exposure following Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection of Multiple Animal Species in a Metropolitan Zoo

Peter Oh,* Reuben Granich,*† Jim Scott,* Ben Sun,‡ Michael Joseph,* Cynthia Stringfield,§ Susan Thisdell,§ Jothan Staley, Donna Workman-Malcolm, Lee Borenstein,# Eleanor Lehnkering,# Patrick Ryan,# Jeanne Soukup,# Annette Nitta,# and Jennifer Flood*
*California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA; §Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, California, USA; City of Los Angeles Occupational Health Services Division, Los Angeles, California, USA; and #Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, California, USA

Figure. IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism results of the six animal isolates and the Mycobacterium tuberculosis reference strain Mtb14323.  Molecular weights of IS6110-containing PvuII fragments of the reference strain are approximately 17, 7.4, 7.1, 4.5, 3.6, 3.1, 2.1, 1.9, 1.7, 1.5, and 1.4 kb. 

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