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Genome-Wide Association Study in Mexican Holstein Cattle Reveals Novel Quantitative Trait Loci Regions and Confirms Mapped Loci for Resistance to Bovine Tuberculosis

open access: yesAnimals, 2019
Simple Summary Bovine tuberculosis is an infectious disease of cattle caused by Mycobacterium bovis characterized by the formation of tubercles in any organ or tissue.
Sara González-Ruíz   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence and Direct Economic Losses from Bovine Tuberculosis in Makurdi, Nigeria

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine International, 2014
A retrospective study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and direct economic losses (DEL) from tuberculosis in cattle slaughtered in Makurdi abattoirs from 2008 to 2012, using abattoir records obtained from the Ministry of
E. F. Ejeh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains isolated from livestock and wild animals in Italy suggests the need for a different eradication strategy for bovine tuberculosis.

open access: yesTransboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2018
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important zoonosis, which has been re-emerging in different ecological scenarios. In Sicily, Italy, from 2004 to 2014, an anatomopathological survey for tuberculosis-like lesions both in farmed and wild animals was ...
B. Amato   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemic modelling of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds and badgers in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Bovine tuberculosis, a disease that affects cattle and badgers in Ireland, was studied via stochastic epidemic modeling using incidence data from the Four Area Project (Griffin et al., 2005). The Four Area Project was a large scale field trial conducted in four diverse farming regions of Ireland over a five-year period (1997-2002) to evaluate the ...
arxiv  

Bovine tuberculosis: a retrospective study at Jos abattoir, Plateau State, Nigeria

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Nigeria has the thirteenth highest burden of human tuberculosis. The current increasing incidence of tuberculosis in humans, particularly in immune-compromised persons, has given interest in the zoonotic importance of Mycobacterium bovis in
Lilian Akudo Okeke   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in the highlands of Cameroon based on the detection of lesions in slaughtered cattle and tuberculin skin tests of live cattle

open access: yes, 2018
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an important neglected zoonosis in Cameroon, where many communi- ties depend on their livestock for livelihood and the incidence of human TB and TB-HIV/AIDS co-infection are high and increasing annually.
J. Awah-Ndukum   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Risk Factors for Zoonotic Tuberculosis at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface in South Africa

open access: yesPathogens, 2019
A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the risk factors associated with zoonotic tuberculosis in humans and its transmission to people living at the wildlife−livestock−human interface. A questionnaire was administered to collect
Petronillah R. Sichewo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of Tuberculosis using U-Net and segmentation techniques [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
One of the most serious public health problems in Peru and worldwide is Tuberculosis (TB), which is produced by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The purpose of this work is to facilitate and automate the diagnosis of tuberculosis using the MODS method and using lens-free microscopy, as it is easier to calibrate and easier to use by ...
arxiv  

Conservation of White Rhinoceroses Threatened by Bovine Tuberculosis, South Africa, 2016–2017

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
During 2016–2017, when Kruger National Park, South Africa, was under quarantine to limit bovine tuberculosis spread, we examined 35 white and 5 black rhinoceroses for infection.
Michele A. Miller   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inside Mycobacterium bovis SB0120 spoligotype circulating in Italy: analysis of the most frequent genotypes by whole genome sequencing

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily caused by Mycobacterium bovis. The infection affects domestic animals and wildlife, posing a zoonotic risk to humans.
Erika Scaltriti   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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