A review of published literature was conducted to identify pasture pig production system
features that pose risks to animal welfare, and to develop recommendations aimed at …

Vaccination with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) constituted a major advance in the
prevention of human tuberculosis (TB) in the beginning of the past century. BCG has also a …

Domestication is the process by which a population of animals becomes adapted to man
and to the captive environment by genetic changes and environmentally induced …

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 …

The Iberian pork industry has proven to be very important in South-Western Europe, not only
due its contribution to the economy of the area, but also because of the peculiarities of the …

The effective management of shared pathogens between wild ungulates and livestock
requires the understanding of the processes of interaction between them. In this work, we …

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a severe zoonotic disease that has major impacts on both
health and the economy, and which has been subjected to specific eradication programmes …

Background Goats are natural hosts of tuberculosis (TB) and are a valid animal model to test
new vaccines and treatments to control this disease. In this study, a new experimental model …

Introduction: This study aims to assess the most likely causes of Bovine tuberculosis (bTB)
breakdowns in Spanish cattle herds and to identify the main risk factors at farm‐level …

Domestic pigs and wild suids are susceptible to Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection
and may even serve as reservoir hosts in some situations. Therefore, detection of infected …