Long-Term Assessment of Wild Boar Harvesting and Cattle Removal for Bovine Tuberculosis Control in Free Ranging Populations

Wild boar is a recognized reservoir of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the Mediterranean ecosystems, but information is scarce outside of hotspots in southern Spain. We describe the first high-prevalence focus of TB in a non-managed wild boar population in northern Spain and the result of eight years of...

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Main Authors: Mentaberre, Gregorio, Romero, Beatriz, de Juan, Lucía, Navarro-González, Nora, Velarde, Roser, Mateos, Ana, Marco, Ignasi, Olivé-Boix, Xavier, Domínguez, Lucas, Lavín, Santiago, Serrano, Emmanuel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928305/