Perspectives on the History of Bovine TB and the Role of Tuberculin in Bovine TB Eradication
Tuberculosis remains a significant disease of animals and humans worldwide. Bovine tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacteria with an extremely wide host range and serious, although currently probably underdiagnosed, zoonotic potential.
Margaret Good, Anthony Duignan
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Epidemiological status of bovine tuberculosis in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2013
A cross sectional study was performed to assess the epidemiological status of bovine tuberculosis in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2013. The state was divided into seven regions, and a preset number of herds was randomly sampled in each region ...
Jonata de Melo Barbieri+13 more
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Bovine tuberculosis is yet a major public health problem throughout the world, including African countries like Ethiopia. Limited public knowledge about the disease, coupled with negative attitudes and poor health practices, are contributing to this ...
Asrat Solomon Kenasew+3 more
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Bovine Tuberculosis Policy in England: Would a Virtuous Government Cull Mr Badger?
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is the most important animal health and welfare policy issue in Britain. Badgers are a wildlife reservoir of disease, although the eight-year Independent Scientific Group (ISG) Randomised Badger Culling Trial concluded ...
S. McCulloch, M. Reiss
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Multi-antigen print immunoassay for seroepidemiological surveillance of bovine tuberculosis on Indian cattle farms [PDF]
Bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis is a zoonotic disease that is responsible for significant economic losses in many countries. The standard diagnostic method, the tuberculin test (TST) that is used in control programmes has serious ...
Maroudam Veerasami+10 more
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A dynamic model to study the potential TB infections and assessment of control strategies in China [PDF]
China is one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis, and although the number of new cases of tuberculosis has been decreasing year by year, the number of new infections per year has remained high and the diagnosis rate of tuberculosis-infected patients has remained low.
arxiv
Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in the Aksu Region of Xinjiang, China, between 1985 and 2016
Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis infection in cattle in Aksu Prefecture determined by intradermal tuberculin skin test (TST), between 1985 and 2016. Cattle were analyzed according to region, feeding pattern, herds and age. A total of 890,009 cattle were
Y.H. Liu+6 more
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Isolamento de cepas de Mycobacterium avium em búfalos abatidos para consumo
Duas cepas micobacterianas, isoladas no parênquima pulmonar e linfonodo apical de búfalos abatidos para consumo, procedentes de criatórios localizados na Ilha de Marajó (PA) e submetidas à identificação segundo ensaios recomendados para o gênero ...
José de Arimatéa Freitas+3 more
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis Edge Diagnosis System Based on MindSpore Framework: Low-cost and High-precision Implementation with Ascend 310 Chip [PDF]
Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) remains a major challenge for global health, especially in areas with poor medical resources, where access to specialized medical knowledge and diagnostic tools is limited. This paper presents an auxiliary diagnosis system for pulmonary tuberculosis based on Huawei MindSpore framework and Ascend310 edge computing chip ...
arxiv
Efficient and Accurate Tuberculosis Diagnosis: Attention Residual U-Net and Vision Transformer Based Detection Framework [PDF]
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, continues to be a major global health threat despite being preventable and curable. This burden is particularly high in low and middle income countries. Microscopy remains essential for diagnosing TB by enabling direct visualization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum ...
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