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Tuberculosis in badgers where the bovine tuberculosis epidemic is expanding in cattle in England
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· 2021
hash_id: 3b386f13fc9117c6b4bcdb63badce87e400f0ef05acf3449c5fc7ddb870c717c
· DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00473-6
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important animal health and economic problem for the cattle industry and a potential zoonotic threat. Wild badgers (Meles meles) play a role on its epidemiology in some areas of high prevalence in cattle, particularly in the UK and Republic of Ireland and increasingly in parts of mainland Europe. However, little is known about the involvement of badgers in areas on the spatial edge of the cattle epidemic, where increasing prevalence in cattle is seen. Here we report the findings of a study of found-dead (mainly road-killed) badgers in six counties on the edge of the English epidemic of bTB in cattle. The overall prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) infection detected in the study area …
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