Review on Bovine Tuberculosis: An Emerging Disease Associated with Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium Species

M Borham, A Oreiby, A El-Gedawy, Y Hegazy… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bovine tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease affecting a wide range of domesticated
and wild animals, representing a worldwide economic and public health burden. The …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis in milk on dairy cattle farms: An international systematic literature review and meta-analysis

ÁB Collins, S Floyd, SV Gordon, SJ More - Tuberculosis, 2022 - Elsevier
Bovine tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), is a globally distributed
chronic disease of animals. The bacteria can be transmitted to humans via the consumption …

Bovine tuberculosis in Britain and Ireland–A perfect storm? The confluence of potential ecological and epidemiological impediments to controlling a chronic infectious …

AR Allen, RA Skuce, AW Byrne - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Successful eradication schemes for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) have been implemented in a
number of European and other countries over the last 50 years. However, the islands of …

Difference in differences analysis evaluates the effects of the badger control policy on bovine tuberculosis in England

CPD Birch, M Bakrania, A Prosser, D Brown… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Persistent tuberculosis (TB) in cattle populations in England has been associated with an
exchange of infection with badgers (Meles meles). A badger control policy (BCP) …

Quantification of the animal tuberculosis multi-host community offers insights for control

N Santos, C Richomme, T Nunes, J Vicente, PC Alves… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Animal tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-host zoonotic disease whose prevalence in cattle herds
in Europe has been increasing, despite a huge investment in eradication. The composition …

Phylodynamic analysis of an emergent Mycobacterium bovis outbreak in an area with no previously known wildlife infections

G Rossi, J Crispell, T Brough, SJ Lycett… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how emergent pathogens successfully establish themselves and persist in
previously unaffected populations is a crucial problem in disease ecology, with important …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian latent class estimation of sensitivity and specificity parameters of diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis in chronically infected herds in Northern …

A Lahuerta-Marin, MG Milne, J McNair, RA Skuce… - The Veterinary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In the European Union, the recommended ante-mortem diagnostic methods for
bovine tuberculosis (bTB) include the single intradermal cervical comparative tuberculin …

Diagnostic accuracy of the Enferplex Bovine Tuberculosis antibody test in cattle sera

A O'Brien, J Clarke, A Hayton, A Adler, K Cutler… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Bovine tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial disease of worldwide economic, zoonotic and
welfare importance caused mainly by Mycobacterium bovis infection. Current regulatory …

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: occurrence in skin test cattle reactors from official tuberculosis-free herds

A Gomez-Buendia, J Alvarez, J Bezos… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are considered a relevant cause of non-specific
reactions to the most widely applied bovine tuberculosis (bTB) test, the intradermal …

Lining the small intestine with mycobacteriophages protects from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and eliminates fecal shedding

VK Harman-McKenna, R Eshraghisamani… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Johne's disease (JD), a chronic, infectious enteritis caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp.
paratuberculosis (MAP), affects wild and domestic ruminants. There is no cure or effective …