Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis infection in Feedlot Deer (Cervus unicolor swinhoei and C. nippon taiouanus) in Taiwan

Abstract

Multiplex PCR methods were established, and M. bovis and M. tuberculosis were identified in feedlot deer in Taiwan. Sequence variations indicated diverse sources of both mycobacterial species.

Zoonotic Aspects of Tuberculosis: Disease of the past or re-emerging zoonosis?

“…In most of these cases the prevalence of M. bovis was found to be higher than that of M. tuberculosis. This may indicate that animal-to-animal transmission is more effective for M. bovis than for M. tuberculosis, while the opposite is true for person-to-person transmission (Srivastava et al 2008;Majoor et al 2011;Romero et al 2011;Prasad et al 2005;Bilal et al 2010;Thakur et al 2012;Chu et al 2012).…”

“…In other domestic animals, M. tuberculosis has been reported as a sporadic infection with potential, but very rare, spillback to humans in dogs, cats (Aranaz et al 1996;Erwin et al 2004;Posthaus et al 2011;Parsons et al 2012), camels (Gumi et al 2012a), goats (Wernery and Kinne 2012), pigs, (Arega et al 2013) deer (Chu et al 2012),…”