Emergence of <i>Mycobacterium orygis</i>–Associated Tuberculosis in Wild Ruminants, India
Megha Sharma, M. Karikalan, Premanshu Dandapat, Asok Kumar Mariappan, Ravi Kumar, Soni Kumari, Vivek Kapur, Sushila Maan, Naresh Jindal, Nitish Bansal, Riyaz Kadiwar, Abhishek Kumar, Nitin Gupta, A.M. Pawde, A.K. Sharma
Abstract
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium orygis was detected in 2 spotted deer from a wildlife sanctuary in western India and an Indian bison from a national park in central India. Nationwide surveillance is urgently required to clarify the epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex at the human-livestock-wildlife interface.
Topics & Concepts
WildlifeTuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisLivestockMycobacterium tuberculosis complexZoonosisMycobacterium bovisEpidemiologyBiologyVeterinary medicineMolecular epidemiologyGeographyVirologyMedicineEcologyGenotypePathologyGeneBiochemistryMycobacterium research and diagnosisTuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyDiagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis