Bovine tuberculosis (bTB)
Assessment of an ELISA method to support surveillance of bovine tuberculosis in Albania
... the bovine tuberculosis control programme has been based on a skin test, by use of a Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) bovine tuberculin produced by the national reference laboratory, the qual- ity ...
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A preliminary study of genetic factors that influence susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in the British cattle herd
... as tuberculosis have been reported in several species. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) impacts greatly the UK cattle industry, yet genetic predispositions have yet to be ...
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Evaluation of Reference Genes for Differential Gene Expression Study of Bovine Tuberculosis
... Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a high impact disease for both animal and human health [19]. A microarray hybridization study was used to examine gene expression profiles from small groups of bTB infected and ...
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Fasciola hepatica is associated with the failure to detect bovine tuberculosis in dairy cattle
... Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a significant and intractable disease of cattle caused by Mycobacterium bovis. In the united Kingdom, despite an aggressive eradication programme, the prevalence of BTB is ...
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Negotiated Management Strategies for Bovine Tuberculosis: Enhancing Risk Mitigation in Michigan and the UK
... Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an epidemiologically, politically, and socially complex disease. Across multiple international contexts, policy makers have struggled to balance the competing demands of ...
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Wildlife-livestock interactions and risk areas for cross-species spread of bovine tuberculosis
... interface. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) has been shown to have wildlife maintenance hosts and has been confirmed as present in the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) ...
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Association between microsatellite markers and bovine tuberculosis in Chadian Zebu cattle
... A recent study of genome-wide association which used high density SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) has identified three SNPs in a 65 kb genomic region on chromosome 22 associated with bovine ...
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A case study of bovine tuberculosis in an area of County Donegal, Ireland
... a descriptive analysis, to investigate the potential risk factors that might have contributed to the increased incidence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) herd-breakdowns in the reference area of Co. Donegal ...
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Review on Zoonotic Importance of Bovine Tuberculosis and Its Control
... Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic infectious zoonotic disease of domestic animals and ...Ethiopia bovine tuberculosis is endemic and mostly transmitted to humans through ingestion of ...
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Age-dependent patterns of bovine tuberculosis in cattle
... Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is an infectious disease of cat- tle caused by the TB species Mycobacterium bovis [1]. In Great Britain, the number of cattle slaughtered due to BTB increased from ~200 in 1986 to ...
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CLINICAL ASPECTS OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS- A CHRONIC BACTERIAL DISEASE OF CATTLE: AN OVERVIEW
... Bovine Tuberculosis is a federal reportable disease with serious implications for agricultural economics and human ...alone. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a chronic infectious disease of ...
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Epidemiological Significance of the Domestic Black Pig (Sus scrofa) in Maintenance of Bovine Tuberculosis in Sicily
... Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an emerging disease among wild animals in many parts of the world. Wildlife reservoir hosts may thus represent a potential source of infection for livestock and humans. We ...
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Bovine tuberculosis in brushtail possums: models, dogma and data
... of bovine tuberculosis (Tb) in brushtail possums were evaluated against their stated purpose, and testable assumptions and predictions evaluated against available data where ...manage bovine ...
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Development and Evaluation of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Use in the Detection of Bovine Tuberculosis in Cattle
... of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) bovine tuberculosis management program. The SICCT, ancillary testing (i.e., IFN- ␥ release assay [Bovigam; Pri- onics Ag, Schlieren, Switzerland]), and lesion ...
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Development of a Skin Test for Bovine Tuberculosis for Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals
... Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of economic and zoo- notic importance caused by infection with Mycobacterium bo- vis, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...of bovine TB is the ...
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Evaluation of Four DNA Typing Techniques in Epidemiological Investigations of Bovine Tuberculosis
... The finding of a common strain distributed throughout Aus- tralia suggests that animals on many properties were infected from the same source. This may have occurred over time as infected cattle moved from one area to ...
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Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis OmpATb as a Novel Antigen for the Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis
... control bovine tuberculosis, the development of diagnostic tests with improved specificity and sensitivity has a high ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis [OmpATb]) was evaluated as a stimulation antigen in ...
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Identification of Novel Antigens Recognized by Serum Antibodies in Bovine Tuberculosis
... ABSTRACT Bovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, remains an im- portant zoonotic disease posing a serious threat to livestock and ...of bovine TB, we screened a panel of 101 ...
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Bovine tuberculosis in the Republic of Macedonia: postmortem, microbiological and molecular study in slaughtered reactor cattle
... Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease in cattle caused mainly by Mycobacterium bovis and to a lesser extent by Mycobacterium ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) can also cause ...
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Single-Antigen Serological Testing for Bovine Tuberculosis
... Antibody responses are useful indicators of Mycobacterium bovis infection of cattle. Tests for such responses often use multiple M. bovis antigens as detection probes. This is recommended because re- sponses to single ...
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