M. bovis and M. caprae, members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC), are
the major causative agents of tuberculosis in domestic animals. Notably, M. bovis exhibits a …

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 …

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic granulomatous caseous-necrotising inflammatory
process that mainly affects the lungs and their draining lymph nodes (Ln.). The pathological …

The contribution of wildlife species to pathogen maintenance in multi-host communities has
seldom been quantified. To assess the relative contribution of the main wildlife hosts of …

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 …

Although control measures to tackle bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle have been
successful in many parts of Europe, this disease has not been eradicated in areas where …

We analyzed the most likely cause of 687 bovine tuberculosis (bTB) breakdowns detected in
Spain between 2009 and 2011 (ie, 22% of the total number of breakdowns detected during …

Animal tuberculosis (TB), which is caused by infection with members of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex (MTC), is a typical multi-host infection that flourishes at the livestock …

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important zoonosis, which has been re‐emerging in different
ecological scenarios. In Sicily, Italy, from 2004 to 2014, an anatomopathological survey for …

The effectiveness of health interventions against bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is influenced by
several “non-biological” factors that may hamper bTB detection and control. Although the …