Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011
Research
Serologic Surveillance of Anthrax in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania, 1996–2009
Table 1
Potential anthrax cases detected in Serengeti wildlife species, Tanzania, 1996–2009
| Common name | Species | No. cases |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Suspected | Probable | ||
| Baboon | Papio anubis | 0 | 1 |
| Black rhinoceros | Diceros bicornis | 1 | 0 |
| Buffalo | Syncerus caffer | 20 | 85 |
| Bushbuck | Tragelaphus scriptus | 1 | 0 |
| Cheetah | Acinonyx jubatus | 0 | 1 |
| Duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | 0 | 1 |
| Eland | Taurotragus oryx | 0 | 1* |
| Elephant | Loxodonta africana | 24 | 7 |
| Grant’s gazelle | Nanger granti | 2 | 3 |
| Giraffe | Giraffa camelopardalis | 14 | 8 |
| Hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus | 0 | 1 |
| Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibious | 32 | 14 |
| Impala | Aepyceros melampus | 35 | 659 |
| Ostrich | Struthio camelus | 0 | 1 |
| Serval | Leptailurus serval | 0 | 1 |
| Thomson’s gazelle | Eudorcas thomsonii | 7 | 5 |
| Topi | Damaliscus korrigum jimela | 0 | 4 |
| Vulture | Gyps africanus | 0 | 2 |
| Warthog | Phacochoerus africanus | 0 | 2 |
| Waterbuck | Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa | 1 | 1 |
| Wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | 112 | 60 |
| Zebra | Equus burchellii | 34 | 83 |
*Outbreak reported but individual case counts not available.


