• Aislamiento de Mycobacterium intracellulare a partir de un pulmón bovino comercializado en una carnicería de la zona oeste del conurbano bonaerense = Isolate of Mycobacterium intracellulare from a bovine lung marketed in a butcher shop from western of Greater Buenos Aires 

      Marfil, Maria Jimena; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Huertas, Pablo Sebastian; Barandiaran, Soledad; Alonso, Bernardo; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2016)
      Se realizó un muestreo de 62 pulmones bovinos en una carnicería y un frigorífico de la zona oeste del conurbano bonaerense. De uno de ellos, adquirido en una carnicería, y sin lesiones visibles compatibles con tuberculosis, ...
    • Analysing nonsynonymous mutations between two Mycobacterium bovis strains with contrasting pathogenic profiles 

      Bigi, María Mercedes; Vazquez, Cristina Lourdes; Castelão, Ana Beatriz C.; Garcia, Elizabeth Andrea; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Jackson, Mary; McNeil, Michael; Soria, Marcelo Abel; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Cabruja, Matias; Gago, Gabriela; Blanco, Federico Carlos; Nishibe, Christiane; Almeida Junior, Nalvo Franco de; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2019-12)
      Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease that can affect cattle, other domesticated species, wild animals and humans. This disease produces important economic ...
    • BoLA-DRB3 exon2 polymorphisms among tuberculous cattle: Nucleotide and functional variability and their association with bovine tuberculosis pathology 

      Eirin, Maria Emilia; Carignano, Hugo Adrian; Shimizu, Ernesto; Pando, Maria de los Angeles; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Magnano, Gabriel; Macías, Analía; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Huertas, Pablo Sebastian; Morsella, Claudia Graciela; Ferrara Muñiz, Ximena; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Paolicchi, Fernando; Poli, Mario Andres (Elsevier, 2020-06)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is caused by Mycobacterium bovis and disseminated worldwide. In Argentina, the highest prevalence occurs in dairy areas. BoLA DRB3.2 is related to the adaptive immunity in mycobacterial infections. ...
    • Bovine tuberculosis in domestic pigs: Genotyping and distribution of isolates in Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Martinez Vivot, Marcela; Pérez, Andrés M.; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Elsevier, 2015-12)
      Bovine tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium bovis and affects primarily cattle, among many other mammal species. In this study, 250 isolates of M. bovis collected from pigs slaughtered in Argentina were typed by ...
    • Detection of Mycobacterium bovis in Bovine and Bubaline tissues using Nested-PCR for TbD1 

      Araújo, Cristina Pires de; Osório, Ana Luiza Alves Rosa; Jorge, Klaudia dos Santos Goncalves; Ramos, Carlos Alberto N.; Filho, Antonio Francisco S.; Vidal, Carlos Eugênio Soto; Roxo, Eliana; Nishibe, Christiane; Almeida Junior, Nalvo Franco de; Júnior, Antônio A. F.; Silva, Marcio Roberto; Neto, Jose Diomedes Barbosa; Cerqueira, Valíria Duarte; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de (PLOS, 2014-03)
      In the present study, a nested-PCR system, targeting the TbD1 region, involving the performance of conventional PCR followed by real-time PCR, was developed to detect Mycobacterium bovis in bovine/bubaline tissue homogenates. ...
    • Detection of Mycobacterium bovis–infected dairy herds using PCR in bulk tank milk samples 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Soutullo, Adriana; Garcia, Maria Ines; Marini, M. Rocío; Abdala, Alejandro Ariel; Tarabla, Hector Dante; Echaide, Susana T. de; Lopez, Marcela; Zervini, Elsa; Canal, Ana María; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2012-02)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic and zoonotic disease due to Mycobacterium bovis. The tuberculosis eradication campaign carried out in Argentina has considerably improved the health situation of the herds. Here we ...
    • Diversidad de especies de micobacterias no tuberculosas aisladas en ambientes acuáticos de la ciudad de General Pico, La Pampa, Argentina = Species diversity of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from aquatic environments of General Pico city, Province of La Pampa (Argentina) 

      Tortone, Claudia Andrea; Oriani, Delia Susana; Staskevich, Ana Sandra; Oriani, Alejandra Soledad; Gino, Lilia Mabel; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Nava Vargas, Alejandro; Gioffre, Andrea; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Asociación Argentina de Microbiología, 2018)
      Las micobacterias no tuberculosas (MNT) no solo se estudian por su importancia como patógenos oportunistas, sino también por sus aplicaciones en biotecnología y biorremediación. Nuestro objetivo fue determinar la presencia ...
    • Draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium bovis 04-303, a highly virulent strain from Argentina 

      Nishibe, Christiane; Canevari Castelão, Ana Beatriz; Dalla Costa, Ricardo; Pinto, Beatriz Jeronimo; Varuzza, Leonardo; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Bernardelli, Amelia; Bigi, Fabiana; Blanco, Federico Carlos; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Almeida, Nalvo Franco; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de (American Society for Microbiology, 2013-11)
      Mycobacterium bovis strain 04-303 was isolated from a wild boar living in a free-ranging field in Argentina. This work reports the draft genome sequence of this highly virulent strain and the genomic comparison of its major ...
    • Draft genome sequences of two mycobacterium bovis strains isolated from beef cattle in Paraguay 

      Sanabria, Lidia; Lagrave, Lorena; Nishibe, Christiane; Ribas, Augusto C.A.; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Almeida, Nalvo Franco; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de (2017-07)
      This work reports the draft genome sequences of the Mycobacterium bovis strains M1009 and M1010, isolated from the lymph nodes of two infected cows on a beef farm in Paraguay. Comparative genomics between these strains and ...
    • Epidemiology of Pig Tuberculosis in Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Capobianco, Guillermo; Perez Aguirreburualde, María Sol; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Eirin, Maria Emilia; Cuerda, Maria Ximena; Winter, Marina; Martinez Vivot, Marcela; Pérez, Andrés Maximiliano; La Sala, Luciano Francisco (Frontiers Editorial, 2021-07)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a disease caused mainly by the Mycobacterium bovis and that is endemic to livestock populations in most Latin American countries. Traditionally, bTB control programs are costly and targeted to ...
    • Evaluación de antígenos recombinantes en la prueba de interferón gamma en bovinos tuberculosos no reactores a la prueba tuberculínica 

      Ferrara Muñiz, Ximena; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Delgado, Fernando Oscar; Garro, Carlos Javier; Huertas, Pablo Sebastian; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Eirin, Maria Emilia (Asosiación Argentina de Veterinarios de Laboratorios de Díagnóstico, 2018-11)
      La tuberculosis se encuentra presente en rodeos bovinos de nuestro país, impactando a nivel de los sistemas de producción de cría y lecheros por disminuir la eficiencia productiva de los animales infectados e imponer ...
    • Exploring the cellulolytic activity of environmental mycobacteria 

      Mon, Maria Laura; Romano, Nelson Gaston; Farace, Pablo Daniel; Tortone, Claudia Andrea; Oriani, Delia Susana; Picariello, Gianluca; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Gioffre, Andrea; Talia, Paola Mónica (Elsevier, 2024-07)
      Although studies on non-tuberculous mycobacteria have increased in recent years because they cause a considerable proportion of infections, their cellulolytic system is still poorly studied. This study presents a ...
    • First Case Reports of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Lung Disease in Ecuador: Important Lessons to Learn 

      Echeverria, Gustavo; Rueda, Veronica; Espinoza, Wilson; Rosero, Carlos; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Waard, Jacobus H. de (MDPI, 2023-04)
      Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung infections are often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, which can lead to ineffective antibiotic treatments. In this report, we present three cases of NTM lung infections in Ecuador that ...
    • Fitness of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the impact on the transmission among household contacts 

      Morcillo, Nora; Imperiale, Belen Rocio; Di Giulio, Angela Beatríz; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Takif, Howard; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Elsevier, 2014-12)
      There has been an on-going debate on whether the development of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reduces its relative fitness and its ability to cause disease. The aim of this study was to explore this ...
    • La genómica de las micobacterias 

      Viale, Mariana; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Zarraga, Ana Maria; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Romano, Maria Isabel; Bigi, Fabiana (Office International des Epizooties, 2016)
      Las especies Mycobacterium bovis y Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis son los agentes causales de la tuberculosis y la paratuberculosis en animales, respectivamente. Además, ambas micobacterias, pero fundamentalmente ...
    • Immunohistochemical detection of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in granulomas in cattle with natural Mycobacterium bovis infection 

      Canal, Ana María; Pezzone, Natalia; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Larzabal, Mariano; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Fernández, Analía; Dominguez, Lucas; Aranaz, Alicia; Rodriguez-Bertos, Antonio (2017)
      Cellular immune response was evaluated in lymph nodes and lung with different granulomatous lesions from cattle naturally infected with Mycobacterium bovis. For this purpose, we assessed pro-inflammatory and anti-inflamm ...
    • LAMP technology: Rapid identification of Brucella and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis 

      Trangoni, Marcos David; Gioffre, Andrea; Ceron Cucchi, Maria Esperanza; Caimi, Karina Cynthia; Ruybal, Paula; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Cravero, Silvio Lorenzo Pedro (Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia, 2015-06)
      In this study, we developed new sets of primers to detect Brucella spp. and M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) through isothermal amplification. We selected a previously well-characterized target gene, bscp31, specific ...
    • Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry identification of mycobacterium bovis in bovinae 

      Bacanelli, Gisele; Olarte, Larissa C.; Silva, Marcio Roberto; Rodrigues, Rudielle A.; Carneiro, Paulo A. M.; Kannene, John B.; Pasquatti, Taynara N.; Takatani, Haruo; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Etges, Rodrigo N.; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Verbisck, Newton V. (The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, 2019-10)
      In this study, Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry was used to identify Mycobacterium bovis from cattle and buffalo tissue isolates from the North and South regions of ...
    • Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle and buffalo in Amazon Region, Brazil 

      Carneiro, Paulo A.M.; Pasquatti, Taynara N.; Takatani, Haruo; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Barnard, Christian; Fitzgerald, Scott D.; Abramovitch, Robert B.; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Kaneene, John B. (Wiley, 2020-02)
      The aim of this study was to characterize Mycobacterium bovis from cattle and buffalo tissue samples, from two Brazilian states, and to analyse their genetic diversity by spoligotyping. Tissue samples from tuberculosis ...
    • Mycobacterioses in dogs and cats from Buenos Aires, Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Martinez Vivot, Marcela; Falzoni, Elvira; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Perez Tort, Gabriela; Rovatti, Paula; Fernandez, Mónica; Iachini, Ricardo; Satek, Fernanda; Duchene, Adriana; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Sage Publications, 2017-09)
      Mycobacterioses can produce nonspecific clinical signs in dogs and cats that make diagnosis difficult. Furthermore, the full characterization of mycobacterial agents is not always possible or practical. We characterized ...