Mycobacterium bovis infection in a young Dutch adult: transmission from an elderly human source?

Onno Akkerman; Kees van der Loo; Dirk Nijmeijer; Tjip van der Werf; Bert Mulder; Kristin Kremer; Dick van Soolingen; Adri van der Zanden

doi:10.1007/s00430-012-0235-4

Mycobacterium bovis infection in a young Dutch adult: transmission from an elderly human source?

Med Microbiol Immunol. 2012 Aug;201(3):397-400. doi: 10.1007/s00430-012-0235-4. Epub 2012 Mar 17.

Authors

Onno Akkerman¹, Kees van der Loo, Dirk Nijmeijer, Tjip van der Werf, Bert Mulder, Kristin Kremer, Dick van Soolingen, Adri van der Zanden

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pulmonology and Tuberculosis, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. o.w.akkerman@umcg.nl

PMID: 22426821
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-012-0235-4

Abstract

A young female health professional was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis. Source finding and contact tracing was initiated by the regional municipal health service using both tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON(®)-TB Gold (QFT-GIT (IGRA). The strain appeared near-identical to that of an elderly Dutch patient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Cattle
Contact Tracing
DNA Transposable Elements / genetics
Female
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional*
Interferon-gamma / metabolism
Mycobacterium bovis / classification
Mycobacterium bovis / genetics*
Mycobacterium bovis / immunology
Nurses*
Nursing Homes
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
Tuberculin Test
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / microbiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / transmission*
Young Adult

Substances

DNA Transposable Elements
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
Interferon-gamma