Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link
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)

Main Article

Table 2

Mycobacterium caprae–positive red deer (Cervus elaphus) and occurrence of macroscopically visible lesions in selected lymph nodes and other tissues, Alpine region, 2009–10, 2010–11, and 2011–12 hunting seasons*

No. animals, N = 59 Lymph node†
 Other tissue‡
Retropharyngeal Mediastinal Tracheobronchial Mesenteric
29 + NLD NLD NLD NLD
5 NLD NLD NLD + NLD
4 NLD NLD NLD NLD NLD
3 + NLD NLD + NLD
2 NLD NLD + NLD Lung
1 + NLD + NLD Lung
1 + NLD NLD + Tonsil
1 NLD NLD NLD NLD Parotid lymph node
2 + + + NLD NLD
2 NLD NLD + + NLD
1 + + + + NLD
1 NLD + + + NLD
1 + NLD + + NLD
1 + + NLD + NLD
1 NLD + NLD + NLD
1 + NLD + NLD NLD
1 + + NLD NLD NLD
1 NLD NLD + NLD NLD
1 NLD + NLD NLD NLD

*NLD, no lesions detected; +, macroscopically visible lesions.
†No. animals with positive findings: retropharyngeal, 41 deer; mediastinal, 8 deer; tracheobronchial, 12 deer; mesenteric, 16 deer.
‡No. animals with positive findings: 5 deer.

Main Article

Page created: February 18, 2015
Page updated: February 18, 2015
Page reviewed: February 18, 2015
The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
file_external