Chronic tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in a domestic donkey in Central Europe |
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| Authors: | Natalia Siwinska Agnieszka Zak Malwina Slowikowska Artur Niedzwiedz Rafal Ciaputa Izabela Janus Marek Lipiec Lukasz Radulski Adam Szymerowski Marcin Nowak |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Internal Medicine and Clinic of Diseases of Horses, Dogs and Cats, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland;2. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland;3. National Veterinary Research Institute, Pu?awy, Poland;4. Anatomopathology Student Research Group, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Bovine tuberculosis is a contagious and zoonotic disease of animals and humans. In Europe, the number of reported cases of tuberculosis has decreased. Equidae are relatively rarely infected even in endemic areas. The presented report describes a case of chronic Mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis in a 30-year-old female donkey. The donkey initially presented with persistent lymphadenopathy; however, as the disease progressed, weight loss became apparent. To the authors' knowledge, this is the second confirmed case of tuberculosis in a donkey in Europe. |
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| Keywords: | horse equidae latent tuberculosis lymphadenopathy mycobacterial infection Mycobacterium bovis |
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