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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Dispatch

Red Deer as Maintenance Host for Bovine Tuberculosis, Alpine Region

Maria FinkComments to Author , 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, and Mathias Büttner
Author affiliations: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Moedling, Austria (M. Fink, M. Gonano); Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Graz, Austria (C. Schleicher); Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria (W.M. Prodinger); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Brescia, Italy (M. Pacciarini); Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Innsbruck (W. Glawischnig); University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (M.-P. Ryser-Degiorgis); University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (C. Walzer, G.L. Stalder, H. Schobesberger, P. Winter); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Bolzano, Italy (D. Lombardo); Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany (M. Büttner)

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Table 1

Estimated prevalence of Mycobacterium caprae in red deer (Cervus elaphus), Alpine region, 2009–10, 2010–11, and 2011–12 hunting seasons

Study area No. animals No. M. caprae positive Estimated prevalence (95% CI), %
Austria, total 590 55
Tyrol
Lechtal I 173 40 23.1 (17.0–30.2)
Lechtal Mitte 98 7 7.1 (2.9–14.2)
Lechtal II 15 1 6.7 (0.1–32.0)
Tannheimertal 32 0 0 (0.0–9.0)
Schwarzwasser 38 0 0 (0.0–7.6)
Vorarlberg
Region 1 50 0 0 (0.0–5.9)
Region 2 61 1 1.6 (0.0–8.8)
Region 3 47 6 12.8 (4.8–25.8)
Region 4 41 0 0 (0.0–7.1)
Region 5
 35
 0
 0 (0.0–8.3)
Switzerland, total 273 0
Grisons 88 0 0 (0.0–3.4)
St. Gall 48 0 0 (0.0–6.1)
Tessin 89 0 0 (0.0–3.4)
Liechtenstein
 48
 0
 0 (0.0–6.1)
Italy, total 514 1
Bergamo/Brescia 77 1 1.3 (0.0–7.1)
Bolzano
East 23 0 0 (0.0–12.3)
North 29 0 0 (0.0–9.9)
South 10 0 0 (0.0–25.9)
West 60 0 0 (0.0–4.9)
Como/Lecco 61 0 0 (0.0–4.8)
Sondrio 95 0 0 (0.0–3.2)
Trento
East 41 0 0 (0.0–7.1)
West 53 0 0 (0.0–5.5)
Varese
 65
 0
 0 (0.0–4.6)
Germany, total 278 3
Region 1 187 1 0.5 (0.0–3.0)
Region 2 91 2 2.2 (0.2–7.8)

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