RT Journal Article
T1 Will we ever eradicate animal tuberculosis?
A1 Gortázar, Christian
A1 De la Fuente, José
A1 Perelló, Alberto
A1 Domínguez Rodríguez, Lucas José
AB Two characteristics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) are particularly relevant for tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology and control, namely the ability of this group of pathogens to survive in the environment and thereby facilitate indirect transmission via water or feed, and the capacity to infect multiple host species including human beings, cattle, wildlife, and domestic animals other than cattle. As a consequence, rather than keeping the focus on certain animal species regarded as maintenance hosts, we postulate that it is time to think of complex and dynamic multi-host MTC maintenance communities where several wild and domestic species and the environment contribute to pathogen maintenance. Regarding the global situation of animal TB, many industrialized countries have reached the Officially Tuberculosis Free status. However, infection of cattle with M. bovis still occurs in most countries around the world. In low- and middle-income countries, human and animal TB infection is endemic and bovine TB control programs are often not implemented because standard TB control through testing and culling, movement control and slaughterhouse inspection is too expensive or ethically unacceptable. In facing increasingly complex epidemiological scenarios, modern integrated disease control should rely on three main pillars: (1) a close involvement of farmers including collaborative decision making, (2) expanding the surveillance and control targets to all three host categories, the environment, and their interactions, and (3) setting up new control schemes or upgrading established ones switching from single tool test and cull approaches to integrated ones including farm biosafety and vaccination.
PB Springer
SN 0368-0762
YR 2023
FD 2023-09-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104505
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104505
LA eng
NO Gortázar, C., de la Fuente, J., Perelló, A. et al. Will we ever eradicate animal tuberculosis?. Ir Vet J 76 (Suppl 1), 24 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13620-023-00254-9
NO 2023 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE
NO Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025