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| | ipedia.com: Tuberculosis Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Close relatives of the bacterium infect cattle (Mycobacterium bovis), swine and fowl (Mycobacterium avium). |
 | | Mycobacterium bovis (the bacterium responsible for bovine TB) in particular has been estimated to be responsible, for the period of the first half of the 20th century, for more losses among farm animals than all other infectious diseases combined. |
 | | The bacillus-causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was described on March 24, 1882 by Robert Koch. |
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