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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Research Letter

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Free-Roaming Wild Asian Elephant

Basavegowdanadoddi Marinaik ChandranaikComments to Author , Beechagondahalli Papanna Shivashankar, Kunigal Srinivasa Umashankar, Poojappa Nandini, Papanna Giridhar, Somenahalli Munivenkatappa Byregowda, and Basavegowdanadoddi Marinaik Shrinivasa
Author affiliations: Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals, Hebbal, Bangalore, India (B.M. Chandranaik, B.P.Shivashankar, P.Nandini, P.Giridhar, S.M.Byregowda); Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Mysore District, Karnataka, India (K.S.Umashankar); National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India (B.M.Shrinivasa)

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Findings from a deceased wild free-roaming Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Karnataka, India, 2016. A) Results of postmortem examination of the lungs. Note the widely disseminated white-yellowish firm nodules with central caseous necrosis. B) Phylogenetic analysis.

Figure. Findings from a deceased wild free-roaming Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Karnataka, India, 2016. A) Results of postmortem examination of the lungs. Note the widely disseminated white-yellowish firm nodules with central caseous necrosis. B) Phylogenetic analysis.

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