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 …

Bottlenecks and broomsticks: the molecular evolution of Mycobacterium bovis

NH Smith, SV Gordon… - Nature Reviews …, 2006 - nature.com
Mycobacterium bovis is the cause of tuberculosis in cattle and is a member of the
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. In contrast to many other pathogenic bacterial …

Bovine tuberculosis vaccine research: historical perspectives and recent advances

WR Waters, MV Palmer, BM Buddle, HM Vordermeier - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
The emergence of wildlife reservoirs of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle as well as
increased inter-regional trade with associated spread of M. bovis has led to renewed interest …

Wildlife reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis worldwide: hosts, pathology, surveillance, and control

SD Fitzgerald, JB Kaneene - Veterinary pathology, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Bovine tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis is a zoonotic disease classically carried by
cattle and spilling over into humans primarily by the ingestion of milk. However, in recent …

Applications of electronic-nose technologies for noninvasive early detection of plant, animal and human diseases

AD Wilson - Chemosensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The development of electronic-nose (e-nose) technologies for disease diagnostics was
initiated in the biomedical field for detection of biotic (microbial) causes of human diseases …

Maintenance, spillover and spillback transmission of bovine tuberculosis in multi-host wildlife complexes: a New Zealand case study

G Nugent - Veterinary microbiology, 2011 - Elsevier
The causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (bTB; Mycobacterium bovis) has a broad host
range. The role of each animal species in spreading the disease depends on how …

Mycobacterium bovis: A Model Pathogen at the Interface of Livestock, Wildlife, and Humans

MV Palmer, TC Thacker, WR Waters… - Veterinary medicine …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Complex and dynamic interactions involving domestic animals, wildlife, and humans create
environments favorable to the emergence of new diseases, or reemergence of diseases in …

Bovine tuberculosis in Donana Biosphere Reserve: the role of wild ungulates as disease reservoirs in the last Iberian lynx strongholds

C Gortázar, MJ Torres, J Vicente, P Acevedo… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Doñana National Park (DNP) in southern Spain is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve where
commercial hunting and wildlife artificial feeding do not take place and traditional cattle …

The History of In Vivo Tuberculin Testing in Bovines: Tuberculosis, a “One Health” Issue

M Good, D Bakker, A Duignan… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is more than 3 million years old thriving in multiple species. Ancestral
Mycobacterium tuberculosis gave rise to multiple strains including Mycobacterium bovis now …

Toward eradication: the effect of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife on the evolution and future direction of bovine tuberculosis management in New Zealand

PG Livingstone, N Hancox, G Nugent… - New Zealand …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
New Zealand's bovine tuberculosis (TB) control programme has greatly reduced the burden
of tuberculosis on the farming industry, from 11% of mature cattle found with TB at slaughter …