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Mycobacterium pinnipedii
Species of bacterium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mycobacterium pinnipedii is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex which primarily infects seals. It is a slowly growing Mycobacterium. The species is named after the pinnipeds, the organisms from which M. pinnipedii was first isolated.[1]
In 2014, a genetic study showed that a Peruvian human skeleton dating to 1000 CE had been infected with a form of tuberculosis most closely related to M. pinnipedii, suggesting that seals had served as a vector for transmission of tuberculosis from the Old World to the New.[2]
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