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The bovine tubercle bacillus must firstly be placed in context among the other agents of tuberculosis [1–5]. In the early decades of the twentieth century, bacteriologists recognized four varieties of tubercle bacilli (human, bovine, avian and cold-blooded), depending on the life forms from which they were isolated. By the middle of the century, only two varieties were still recognized as agents of human and bovine tuberculosis (TB), namely Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis [6], respectively.

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Bonamonte, D., Filoni, A., Angelini, G. (2017). Mycobacterium bovis Skin Infection. In: Bonamonte, D., Angelini, G. (eds) Mycobacterial Skin Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48538-6_3

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