Although Poland is officially tuberculosis (TB) free, meaning that less than 0.1% of her cattle herd is TB-positive, the problem of bovine TB in Poland may be re-emerging: its presence has recently been confirmed in domestic ...

Introduction: The study highlights the transboundary nature of tuberculosis (TB) in alpacas and the failure of current ante-mortem testing protocols (the tuberculin skin and Enferplex Camelid TB tests) to identify TB-free ...

Introduction: Zoonoses have recently become an increasing public health problem. Zoonoses are estimated to account for 60% of all emerging infectious diseases. One particularly important zoonosis is human tuberculosis, ...

Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease, that can affect humans as well as farm, wild and companion animals. adue to close and frquent contacts with human,companion animal pose the greatest threat to tha public health ...

In the period 1996–2012, two outbreaks of animal tuberculosis were noted in the population of free-living European bison (Bison bonasus caucasicus) in the Bieszczady Mountains, Southern Poland. As the European bison is an ...

Tuberculosis (TB), is a contagious disease of humans and many animal species. The etiological agent of tuberculosis are bacteria (mycobacteria), belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Surveillance of ...

Mycobacterium is one of the most dangerous pathogens of both animals and humans. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a disease caused by mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), which spreads ...