Wild boar and red deer display high prevalences of tuberculosis-like lesions in Spain

Veterinary Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-119

  Vicente, Joaquín ^a   Höfle, Ursula ^a   Garrido, Joseba M ^b   Fernández De Mera, Isabel G ^a   Juste, Ramón ^b   Barral, Marta ^b   Gortazar, Christian ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; Red deer; Spain; Tuberculosis like lesions; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD BOAR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; SWINE DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 30344445972     PISSN: 09284249     EISSN: 12979716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2005044     Document Type: Article

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