Failure to identify non-bovine reservoirs of Mycobacterium bovis in a region with a history of infected dairy-cattle herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-62

  Pillai, Suresh D ^a   Widmer, Kenneth W ^a   Ivey, Louis J ^b   Coker, Kevin C ^c   Newman, Everett ^c   Lingsweiler, Sonia ^d   Baca, Daniel ^e   Kelley, Michael ^c   Davis, Donald S ^f,g   Silvy, Nova J ^g   Adams, L Garry ^f  

^a Environmental Science Program   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^e Texas Animal Health Commission   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle microbiological diseases; Mycobacterium bovis; Reservoirs; Tuberculosis; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RODENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA; TEXAS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 0034606725     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(99)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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