A database for animal tuberculosis (mycoDB.es) within the context of the Spanish national programme for eradication of bovine tuberculosis
Infection Genetics and Evolution publish this investigation article
June 1st, 2012
Spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) analysis are the international standard techniques for molecular typing of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. To enable the exploitation of molecular typing data for epidemiological purposes, the creation of large databases is indispensable. Here we describe mycoDB.es, a database for animal tuberculosis which forms part of the Spanish national programme for eradication of bovine tuberculosis. This database has been created as an epidemiological tool at national level and contains spoligotype patterns of 17273 isolates clustered in 401 different spoligotypes of M. bovis, M. caprae and M. tuberculosis. The database offers an overview of the present spoligotypes, to a lower extent also of MIRU-VNTRtypes, affected animal species and furthermore of the spatial distribution of these genotypes
Rodriguez-Campos S., Gonzalez S., de Juan L., Romero B., Bezos J., Casal C., Alvarez J., Fernandez de Mera IG., Castellanos E., Mateos A., Saez-Llorente JL., Dominguez L., Aranaz A. and Spanish Network on Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis.
 | Servicio de Micobacterias (MYC). Servicio de Informática y Comunicación (SIC). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
| Departamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
 | Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM). |
 | Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal (LCSA). Área de Ganadería. Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (MAGRAMA). |
