Bovine tuberculosis: a review of current and emerging diagnostic techniques in view of their relevance for disease control and eradication

I Schiller, B Oesch, HM Vordermeier… - Transboundary and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Existing strategies for long‐term bovine tuberculosis (bTB) control/eradication campaigns
are being reconsidered in many countries because of the development of new testing …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of worldwide bovine tuberculosis risk factors in cattle: a stratified approach

MF Humblet, ML Boschiroli, C Saegerman - Veterinary research, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The worldwide status of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) as a zoonosis remains of great concern.
This article reviews the main risk factors for bTB in cattle based on a three-level …

Development and evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for use in the detection of bovine tuberculosis in cattle

WR Waters, BM Buddle, HM Vordermeier… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
As a consequence of continued spillover of Mycobacterium bovis into cattle from wildlife
reservoirs and increased globalization of cattle trade with associated transmission risks, new …

Bovine tuberculosis in Europe from the perspective of an officially tuberculosis free country: trade, surveillance and diagnostics

I Schiller, W RayWaters, HM Vordermeier, T Jemmi… - Veterinary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Switzerland has been officially free of bovine tuberculosis (OTF) since 1960. Since 1980 the
control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has been reduced to passive abattoir surveillance …

Bovine tuberculosis: effect of the tuberculin skin test on in vitro interferon gamma responses

I Schiller, HM Vordermeier, WR Waters… - Veterinary immunology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a disease of zoonotic and economic importance. In many
countries, control is based on test and slaughter policies and/or abattoir surveillance. For …

Development and evaluation of a gamma-interferon assay for tuberculosis in badgers (Meles meles)

D Dalley, D Davé, S Lesellier, S Palmer, T Crawshaw… - Tuberculosis, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper we report the development of a sensitive and specific assay for the detection of
tuberculosis (TB) in European badgers (Meles meles), based on the stimulation of …

Potential efficiency of conventional and advanced approaches used to detect Mycobacterium bovis in cattle

AM Algammal, A Wahdan, MM Elhaig - Microbial pathogenesis, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study was aimed to assess the prevalence and efficiency of techniques for the
diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay …

Risk factors and true prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Bangladesh

MN Islam, MK Khan, MFR Khan, P Kostoulas… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Bovine tuberculosis (bTb) is endemic in Bangladesh but the true prevalence has not yet
been reported. Our objectives for this study were to determine the true prevalence and …

Optimization of a Whole-Blood Gamma Interferon Assay for Detection of Mycobacterium bovis-Infected Cattle

I Schiller, WR Waters, HM Vordermeier… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antigens of Mycobacterium bovis elicit a cell-mediated immune response upon intradermal
injection in cattle. In vitro, such antigens stimulate the production of gamma interferon (IFN-γ) …

Effect of skin testing and segregation on the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis, and molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis, in Ethiopia

G Ameni, A Aseffa, A Sirak, H Engers… - Veterinary …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In 2002, the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (tb) among 500 cattle on Holeta Farm, near
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was 48 per cent, and the farm was divided into positive and negative …