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A preliminary study of genetic factors that influence susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in the British cattle herd [PDF]
Associations between specific host genes and susceptibility to Mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis have been reported in several species. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) impacts greatly the UK cattle industry, yet genetic predispositions have yet to ...
Driscol, E. +26 more
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BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of twenty-four cases of tuberculosis in children and infants, with special reference to the bovine or human type of infecting organism in each case. The results of most investigations into the occurrence of the bovine type of the tubercle bacillus in tuberculosis of children tend to demonstrate the
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Bovine tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease affecting a wide range of domesticated and wild animals, representing a worldwide economic and public health burden.
Mohamed Borham +6 more
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Badgers and bovine tuberculosis [PDF]
What is tuberculosis in badgers? Tuberculosis in European badgers Meles meles is caused by Mycobacterium bovis, the same pathogen that causes bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Pasteurization of cows’ milk and childhood vaccination have greatly reduced human cases of bovine tuberculosis infection in the developed world, though it remains a public health ...
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Risk factors for bovine Tuberculosis at the national level in Great Britain [PDF]
<p><b>Background:</b> The continuing expansion of high incidence areas of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in Great Britain (GB) raises a number of questions concerning the determinants of infection at the herd level that are driving spread of
Paul R Bessell +12 more
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Bovine tuberculosis in Swedish farmed deer [PDF]
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) was introduced into Swedish farmed deer herds in 1987. Epidemiological investigations showed that 10 deer herds had become infected (July 1994) and a common source of infection, a consignment of 168 imported farmed fallow deer ...
Wahlström, Helene
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Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and risk factor assessment in cattle in rural livestock areas of govuro district in the southeast of Mozambique [PDF]
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is an infectious disease of cattle that also affects other domestic animals, free-ranging and farmed wildlife, and also humans.
Inlamea Osvaldo +37 more
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The aim of the present study is to provide information about the ability of Mycobacterium bovis to survive within wild boar (Sus scrofae) meat and meat-based preparations and the duration of this survival, and to consider the preservation of its ...
Maria T. Clausi +5 more
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Impact of imperfect test sensitivity on determining risk factors : the case of bovine tuberculosis [PDF]
Background Imperfect diagnostic testing reduces the power to detect significant predictors in classical cross-sectional studies. Assuming that the misclassification in diagnosis is random this can be dealt with by increasing the sample size of a study ...
Camille Szmaragd (142510) +22 more
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