Mycobacterium caprae in cattle and humans in Croatia.

Željko Cvetnić, Vera Katalinić-Jankovič, Branko Šoštarić, Silvio Špičić, Mihaela Obrovac, Sanja Marjanović, Miroslav Benić, Branka Kristić Kirin, Ivan Vicković

PubMed · 2007 · 69 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Although not bacteriologically proven, consumption of raw milk or non-pasteurised milk products from infected dairy cattle was suspected as the source of infection in humans. Our findings confirm the domination of M. caprae among cattle in Croatia and represent the first evidence of M. caprae infection in humans in Croatia.