First report of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis in a black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya ): a study with mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit–variable number of tandem repeats genetic profiling
Anna Didkowska
Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health Protection, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGWWarsaw, Poland
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, Marta Majchrzak
Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of SciencesŁódź, Poland
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, Michał Załuski
The Silesian Zoological Garden in ChorzówChorzów, Poland
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, Sylwia Brzezińska
Department of Microbiology, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research InstituteWarsaw, Poland
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, Dawid Jańczak
Department of Infectious and Invasive Diseases and Veterinary Administration, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolas Copernicus University in ToruńToruń, Poland
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, Magdalena Nowak
Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health Protection, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGWWarsaw, Poland
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, Wiktoria Tchórz
Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health Protection, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGWWarsaw, Poland
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, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć
Department of Microbiology, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research InstituteWarsaw, Poland
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, Katarzyna Matusik
Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health Protection, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGWWarsaw, Poland
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and Paweł Parniewski
Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of SciencesŁódź, Poland
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May 06, 2025
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Published Online: May 06, 2025
Page range: 191 - 197
Received: Dec 20, 2024
Accepted: Apr 28, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2025-0027
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© 2025 Anna Didkowska et al., published by Sciendo
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Fig. 1.
Antibiogram results for the tested Mycobacterium avium strain isolated from black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) faeces
| Antibiotic | MIC result | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Clarithromycin | 1 | S |
| Moxifloxacin | 8 | S |
| Amikacin | 4 | R |
| Linezolid | 16 | I |
Results of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit–variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing and insertion sequence (IS)901, IS900 and IS1245 identification of a Mycobacterium avium strain isolated from black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) faeces
| Isolate No. | Strain origin | Number of copies MIRU-VNTR region | Subspecies assignment | IS901 | IS900 | IS1245 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR 292 | TR X3 | TR 25 | TR 47 | TR 3 | TR 7 | TR 10 | TR 32 | ||||||
| N32 | Black howler monkey | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | MAH | – | – | + |