Farm Families and Bovine Tuberculosis

Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in a dairy cattle farm and a research farm in Ghana.

The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) and to identify the mycobacterial species causing BTB in a dairy farm and research farm. Six hundred and eighty-five cattle were screened for BTB by using the Comparative intradermal tuberculin test (CTT). Positive reactors were slaughtered and carcasses were taken for isolation of mycobacterial species. This was f...

Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread.

While much is known about the risk factors for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in herds located in high incidence areas, the drivers of bTB spread in areas of emerging endemicity are less well established. Epidemiological analysis and intensive social research identified natural and social risk factors that may prevent or encourage the spread of disease. These were investigated using a case-control s...

Badgers and bovine tuberculosis

falsify a molecular phylogeny based on evidence from geographic or morphological evidence. However, a phylogeny reconstructing extinct relationships, which usually did not preserve molecular evidence, is difficult to falsify. When studying paleontology, constructing phylogenetic hypotheses is important, yet we are always struggling in debates over which phylogenetic cladogram is closest to the ...

Human and Bovine Tuberculosis

losis were two separate and distinct diseases, caused by two different species of the tubercle bacillus, and that if there was any possibility at all of one of them being communicated to the proper hosts of the other, the risks were too slight to justify the taking of precautions against them. Apart from the profoundly interesting nature of the issue thus raised, it involved practical questions...

Bovine Tuberculosis