• Spatial distribution of Mycobacterium bovis spoligotypes in cattle from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil 

      Souza, Mariana Assunção de; Lopes, Thaís Aline Carolino; Silva, Brendhal Almeida; Bombonato, Nadia Grandi; Dib, Cristina Corsi; Marfil, Maria Jimena; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Lima, Anna Monteiro Correia (Springer, 2022-07)
      Genotyping methods have led to a better understanding of the epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection, and its transmission dynamics, as well as the possible phylogenetic relationships between Mycobacterium ...
    • The subunit vaccine H65 + CAF01 increased the BCG- protection against Mycobacterium bovis infection in a mouse model of bovine tuberculosis 

      Blanco, Federico Carlos; Garcia, Elizabeth Andrea; Aagaard, Claus; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2021-05)
      H65, a fusion protein of three pairs of ESX-secreted antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis, formulated with the liposomal adjuvant CAF01 has been shown to confer protection against M. tuberculosis ...
    • Transmissibility of Mycobacterium pinnipedii in a murine model 

      Marfil, Maria Jimena; Blanco, Federico Carlos; Colombatti Olivieri, Maria Alejandra; Eirin, Maria Emilia; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Frontiers Media, 2024-03)
      The causative agent of tuberculosis in pinnipeds is Mycobacterium pinnipedii, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). The natural hosts are pinnipeds; however, other non-marine mammals, including humans, ...
    • Tuberculosis in swine co-infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis and Mycobacterium bovis in a cluster from Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Pérez, Andrés M.; Gioffre, Andrea; Martinez Vivot, Marcela; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Cambridge University Press, 2015-04)
      In Argentina little is known about the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) infection in swine. We characterized the epidemiological dynamics of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection in a swine population of Argentina ...
    • Tuberculosis in wild pigs from Argentina 

      Barandiaran, Soledad; Marfil, Maria Jimena; La Sala, Luciano Francisco; Tammone, Agostina; Condori, Walter Ezequiel; Winter, Marina; Abate, Sergio; Rosas, Ana Carolina; Ponce, Loredana; Carpinetti, Bruno Nicolás; Serena, Maria Soledad; Lozano Calderon, Laura Camila; Zumarraga, Martin Jose (Springer, 2024)
      Mycobacterium bovis, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) and non-tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM), may infect wild and domestic mammals, including humans. Although cattle are the main hosts and spreaders ...
    • Understanding the relationship between Mycobacterium bovis spoligotypes from cattle in Latin American Countries 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Arriaga, Camila; Barandiaran, Soledad; Cobos-Marín, Laura; de Waard, Jacobus; Estrada-Garcia, Iris; Figueiredo, Telma; Figueroa, Alvaro; Gimenez, Francisco; Gomes, Harrison M.; Gonzalez-y-Merchand, Jorge A.; Macías, Analía; Milián-Suazo, Feliciano; Rodríguez, Cesar Alejandro Rosales; Santillán, Marco Antonio; Suffys, Philip Noel; Trangoni, Marcos David; Zarraga, Ana Maria; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Elsevier, 2013-02)
      Spoligotyping is the most frequently used method for genotyping isolates of Mycobacterium bovis worldwide. In the current work, we compared spoligotypes from 1684 M. bovis isolates from Argentina (816), Brazil (412), Chile ...
    • Use of touch-down polymerase chain reaction to enhance the sensitivity of Mycobacterium bovis detection 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Meikle, Virginia; Bernardelli, Amelia; Abdala, Alejandro Ariel; Tarabla, Hector Dante; Romano, Maria Isabel; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Sage Publications, 2005-05)
      The confirmatory diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) in animal samples is carried out by culture in Stonebrink media. However, culture is very slow because of the extremely long duplication time of the bacillus and ...