Bovine Tuberculosis (TB)

In this episode, Dr Lottie talks about bovine tuberculosis (TB).

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Recommended Reading

• Unveiling Insights into Bovine Tuberculosis: A Comprehensive Review
• Review on Bovine Tuberculosis: An Emerging Disease Associated with Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium Species
• APHIS NVAP Reference Guide: Tuberculosis (Control & Eradication) — for U.S. regulatory & testing standards
• Bovine Medicine by Peter Cockcroft
• Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs and Goats by Peter D. Constable, Kenneth William Hinchcliff, Walter Grünberg, Stanley Done

References

• Schiller, I., Waters, W.R., Vordermeier, H.M., et al., 2010. Bovine tuberculosis: a review of current and emerging diagnostic techniques in view of their relevance for disease control and eradication. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 57(4), pp.205–220. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1865-1682.2010.01148.x
• Zewude, A., Sibhatu, A., Dejene, S.W., et al., 2024. Unveiling insights into bovine tuberculosis: a comprehensive review. Open Veterinary Journal, 14(2), pp.163–175. https://doi.org/10.5455/OVJ.2024.v14.i2.5
• The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), 2025. Mammalian tuberculosis – Technical disease card. Available at: https://www.woah.org/en/disease/mammalian-tuberculosis/ [Accessed 15 Oct. 2025].
• TB Hub, 2025. Bovine TB information for farmers and vets. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK. Available at: https://tbhub.co.uk [Accessed 15 Oct. 2025].
• Fromsa, A., et al., 2024. BCG vaccination reduces bovine tuberculosis transmission, improving prospects for elimination. Science, 383, eadl3962. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl3962
• Whelan, A.O., Clifford, D., Upadhyay, B., Breadon, E.L., McNair, J., Hewinson, G.R. and Vordermeier, M.H., 2010. Development of a skin test for bovine tuberculosis for differentiating infected from vaccinated animals. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48(9), pp.3176–3181. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00420-10
• United States Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS), 2025. Tuberculosis: Control and eradication. National Veterinary Accreditation Program Reference Guide. Available at: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/nvap/reference-guide/control-eradication/tuberculosis [Accessed 15 Oct. 2025].
• Vordermeier, H.M., Hewinson, G.R. and Rhodes, S.G., 2022. Editorial: Recent advances in bovine tuberculosis. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 907353. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.907353
• Borham, M., Oreiby, A., El-Gedawy, A., Hegazy, Y., Khalifa, H.O., Al-Gaabary, M. and Matsumoto, T., 2022. Review on bovine tuberculosis: an emerging disease associated with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium species. Pathogens, 11(7), 715. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11070715
• Khairullah, A.R., et al., 2024. Unveiling insights into bovine tuberculosis: a comprehensive review. Open Veterinary Journal, 14(6), pp.1330–1344. https://doi.org/10.5455/OVJ.2024.v14.i6.2
• Cockcroft, P.D., 2025. Bovine Medicine: Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle. 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
• Hinchcliff, K.W., Constable, P.D., Done, S. H. and Grünberg, W., 2017. Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs and Goats. 11th ed. Elsevier, St Louis, MO.

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