Red deer as maintenance host for bovine tuberculosis, Alpine region

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Mar;21(3):464-7. doi: 10.3201/eid2103.141119.

Abstract

To estimate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in the Alpine region, we studied the epidemiology of Mycobacterium caprae in wildlife during the 2009-2012 hunting seasons. Free-ranging red deer (Cervus elaphus) were a maintenance host in a hot-spot area, mainly located in Austria.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Animals, Wild
  • Austria
  • Cattle
  • Deer / microbiology*
  • Disease Reservoirs / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Geography
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Molecular Typing
  • Mycobacterium bovis* / classification
  • Mycobacterium bovis* / genetics
  • Prevalence
  • Switzerland
  • Tuberculosis, Bovine / epidemiology*
  • Tuberculosis, Bovine / transmission*