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Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal

Concerning large game in Portugal, there is an epidemiological risk area for tuberculosis where the pressure of tuberculosis infection in wild animals is high. Hunters and other people involved in managing carcasses (evisceration and/or initial examination) of these animals should be considered as a...

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Autores principales: Abrantes, Ana Carolina, Serejo, João, Vieira-Pinto, Madalena
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10051836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36977168
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8030167
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Serejo, João
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description Concerning large game in Portugal, there is an epidemiological risk area for tuberculosis where the pressure of tuberculosis infection in wild animals is high. Hunters and other people involved in managing carcasses (evisceration and/or initial examination) of these animals should be considered as a high-risk population for sporadic occupational zoonotic infection. This study aims to evaluate and indicate these stakeholders’ main risk practices. The survey was carried out in two phases: a first phase with an anonymous survey to hunters about self-consumption of game meat and carcass handling practices, and a second phase of evaluation in loco of the practices carried out at collection points after driven hunts. As the main results suggested in this study, bad practices and improper handling of hunted carcasses potentially infected with tuberculosis were marked in both phases of the survey, mostly related to the lack of recognition of tuberculosis-like lesions and the non-use of individual protection material, such as gloves and masks. It is evident that stakeholders are interested in learning more about how to perform initial examination properly and what kind of biosecurity measures can be adopted to minimize zoonotic infection risk.
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spelling pubmed-100518362023-03-30 Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal Abrantes, Ana Carolina Serejo, João Vieira-Pinto, Madalena Trop Med Infect Dis Communication Concerning large game in Portugal, there is an epidemiological risk area for tuberculosis where the pressure of tuberculosis infection in wild animals is high. Hunters and other people involved in managing carcasses (evisceration and/or initial examination) of these animals should be considered as a high-risk population for sporadic occupational zoonotic infection. This study aims to evaluate and indicate these stakeholders’ main risk practices. The survey was carried out in two phases: a first phase with an anonymous survey to hunters about self-consumption of game meat and carcass handling practices, and a second phase of evaluation in loco of the practices carried out at collection points after driven hunts. As the main results suggested in this study, bad practices and improper handling of hunted carcasses potentially infected with tuberculosis were marked in both phases of the survey, mostly related to the lack of recognition of tuberculosis-like lesions and the non-use of individual protection material, such as gloves and masks. It is evident that stakeholders are interested in learning more about how to perform initial examination properly and what kind of biosecurity measures can be adopted to minimize zoonotic infection risk. MDPI 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10051836/ /pubmed/36977168 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8030167 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title_full Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title_fullStr Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title_short Risk Practices for Occupational Zoonotic Exposure to Tuberculosis in a High-Risk Population in Portugal
title_sort risk practices for occupational zoonotic exposure to tuberculosis in a high-risk population in portugal
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10051836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36977168
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8030167
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