Unexpected high responses to tuberculin skin-test in farmed red deer: Implications for tuberculosis control

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 327-334

  Queiros, J ^a,b   Alvarez, J ^a,c   Carta, T ^a   Mateos, A ^c   Ortiz, J A ^d   Fernandez de Mera I G ^a,c   Martin Hernando M P ^a   Gortazar C ^a  

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

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Ctra Vejer Benalup ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus; ELISA; Non tuberculous mycobacteria; Skin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; DEER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST; SPAIN; STANDARD; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOPSY; DEER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TESTS; SPAIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 84858795353     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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