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A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area

The role of badgers in the geographic expansion of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) epidemic in England is unknown: indeed there have been few published studies of bTB in badgers outside of the Southwest of England where the infection is now endemic in cattle. Cheshire is now on the edge of the expandi...

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Autores principales: Sandoval Barron, Elsa, Swift, Ben, Chantrey, Julian, Christley, Robert, Gardner, Richard, Jewell, Chris, McGrath, Ian, Mitchell, Andrew, O’Cathail, Colman, Prosser, Alison, Ridout, Sue, Sanchez-Cabezudo, Gonzalo, Smith, Noel, Timofte, Dorina, Williams, Nicola, Bennett, Malcolm
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6283848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30523345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35652-5
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author Sandoval Barron, Elsa
Swift, Ben
Chantrey, Julian
Christley, Robert
Gardner, Richard
Jewell, Chris
McGrath, Ian
Mitchell, Andrew
O’Cathail, Colman
Prosser, Alison
Ridout, Sue
Sanchez-Cabezudo, Gonzalo
Smith, Noel
Timofte, Dorina
Williams, Nicola
Bennett, Malcolm
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Swift, Ben
Chantrey, Julian
Christley, Robert
Gardner, Richard
Jewell, Chris
McGrath, Ian
Mitchell, Andrew
O’Cathail, Colman
Prosser, Alison
Ridout, Sue
Sanchez-Cabezudo, Gonzalo
Smith, Noel
Timofte, Dorina
Williams, Nicola
Bennett, Malcolm
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description The role of badgers in the geographic expansion of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) epidemic in England is unknown: indeed there have been few published studies of bTB in badgers outside of the Southwest of England where the infection is now endemic in cattle. Cheshire is now on the edge of the expanding area of England in which bTB is considered endemic in cattle. Previous studies, over a decade ago when bovine infection was rare in Cheshire, found no or only few infected badgers in the south eastern area of the county. In this study, carried out in 2014, road-killed badgers were collected through a network of local stakeholders (farmers, veterinarians, wildlife groups, government agencies), and Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from 21% (20/94) badger carcasses. Furthermore, there was strong evidence for co-localisation of M. bovis SB0129 (genotype 25) infection in both badgers and cattle herds at a county scale. While these findings suggest that both badgers and cattle are part of the same geographically expanding epidemic, the direction of any cross-species transmission and the drivers of this expansion cannot be determined. The study also demonstrated the utility of using road-killed badgers collected by stakeholders as a means of wildlife TB surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-62838482018-12-07 A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area Sandoval Barron, Elsa Swift, Ben Chantrey, Julian Christley, Robert Gardner, Richard Jewell, Chris McGrath, Ian Mitchell, Andrew O’Cathail, Colman Prosser, Alison Ridout, Sue Sanchez-Cabezudo, Gonzalo Smith, Noel Timofte, Dorina Williams, Nicola Bennett, Malcolm Sci Rep Article The role of badgers in the geographic expansion of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) epidemic in England is unknown: indeed there have been few published studies of bTB in badgers outside of the Southwest of England where the infection is now endemic in cattle. Cheshire is now on the edge of the expanding area of England in which bTB is considered endemic in cattle. Previous studies, over a decade ago when bovine infection was rare in Cheshire, found no or only few infected badgers in the south eastern area of the county. In this study, carried out in 2014, road-killed badgers were collected through a network of local stakeholders (farmers, veterinarians, wildlife groups, government agencies), and Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from 21% (20/94) badger carcasses. Furthermore, there was strong evidence for co-localisation of M. bovis SB0129 (genotype 25) infection in both badgers and cattle herds at a county scale. While these findings suggest that both badgers and cattle are part of the same geographically expanding epidemic, the direction of any cross-species transmission and the drivers of this expansion cannot be determined. The study also demonstrated the utility of using road-killed badgers collected by stakeholders as a means of wildlife TB surveillance. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6283848/ /pubmed/30523345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35652-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Sandoval Barron, Elsa
Swift, Ben
Chantrey, Julian
Christley, Robert
Gardner, Richard
Jewell, Chris
McGrath, Ian
Mitchell, Andrew
O’Cathail, Colman
Prosser, Alison
Ridout, Sue
Sanchez-Cabezudo, Gonzalo
Smith, Noel
Timofte, Dorina
Williams, Nicola
Bennett, Malcolm
A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title_full A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title_fullStr A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title_full_unstemmed A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title_short A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area
title_sort study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the british bovine tb epidemic area
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6283848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30523345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35652-5
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