Volume 12, Number 5—May 2006
THEME ISSUE
Tuberculosis Special Section
Dispatch
Mycobacterium bovis Isolates from Tuberculous Lesions in Chadian Zebu Carcasses
Colette Diguimbaye-Djaibé*1, Markus Hilty†*1
, Richard Ngandolo*, Hassane H. Mahamat*, Gaby E. Pfyffer, Franca Baggi§, Glyn Hewinson¶, Marcel Tanner†, Jakob Zinsstag†, and Esther Schelling†
, Richard Ngandolo*, Hassane H. Mahamat*, Gaby E. Pfyffer, Franca Baggi§, Glyn Hewinson¶, Marcel Tanner†, Jakob Zinsstag†, and Esther Schelling†
Table
Specimens collected at the main slaughterhouse of N'Djaména, Chad, and specifications of the condemned carcasses
| Organ/tissue | n | Condemnation |
Breed |
Sex |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entire | Partial | Arab | Mbororo | Male | Female | ||
| Lymph nodes | 116 | 17 | 99 | 67 | 49 | 8 | 108 |
| Lungs | 75 | 13 | 62 | 51 | 24 | 1 | 74 |
| Lungs and lymph nodes | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Liver | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Miliary tuberculosis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 199 | 30 | 169 | 124 | 75 | 9 | 190 |
1These authors contributed equally to this study.
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