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Red Deer as Maintenance Host for Bovine Tuberculosis,Alpine Region |
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| Authors: | Maria Fink Corina Schleicher Monika Gonano Wolfgang M. Prodinger Maria Pacciarini Walter Glawischnig Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis Chris Walzer Gabrielle L. Stalder Dorotea Lombardo Hermann Schobesberger Petra Winter Mathias Büttner |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | Tuberculosis and other mycobacteria wildlife bovine tuberculosis Mycobacterium caprae reservoir host spillover host spillback host maintenance host red deer Alps zoonoses bacteria |