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T1 Complementary roles of wild boar and red deer to animal tuberculosis maintenance in multi-host communities
A1 Santos, Nuno
A1 Ferreras Colino, Elisa
A1 Arnal, María Cruz
A1 Fernández de Luco, Daniel
A1 Sevilla, Iker A.
A1 Garrido, Joseba M.
A1 Fonseca, Eliana
A1 Valente, Ana M.
A1 Balseiro Morales, Ana María
A1 Queirós, Joao
A1 Almeida, Virgilio
A1 Vicente, Joaquín
A1 Gortázar, Christian
A1 Alves, Paulo Célio
A2 Sanidad Animal
K1 Sanidad animal
K1 Mycobacterium bovis
K1 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
K1 Bovine tuberculosis
K1 Basic reproduction number
K1 R0
K1 Sus scrofa
K1 Cervus elaphus
K1 3109 Ciencias Veterinarias
AB [EN] The contribution of wildlife species to pathogen maintenance in multi-host communities has seldom been quantified. To assess the relative contribution of the main wildlife hosts of animal tuberculosis (TB) to its maintenance, we estimated the basic reproduction number (R0) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in wild boar and red deer at 29 sites in the Iberian Peninsula. Host abundance and true TB prevalence were estimated for each species at each site by sampling from distributions incorporating the uncertainty in the proportion of the population harvested each year, sensitivity, and specificity of the diagnostic methods, while excretion of mycobacteria was estimated using site-occupancy models. The distributions of these parameters were then used to estimate, at each site, the R0,wild boar (range 0.1 – 55.9, average 8.7, standard deviation 11.8), and the R0,red deer (0.1 – 18.9, 2.2, 3.9). Animal TB is maintained in epidemiological scenarios ranging from any single species acting as a maintenance host (the wild boar in 18 sites and the red deer in 5), to facultative multi-host disease (6 sites). The prevalence of TB in the red deer is likely an important driver of the epidemiology in multi-host communities. The wild boar was the main maintenance host of TB in most of the study sites and could have an epidemiological role linking the wildlife multi-host community and livestock
PB Elsevier
SN 1755-4365
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18727
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18727
NO Santos, N., Colino, E. F., Arnal, M. C., de Luco, D. F., Sevilla, I., Garrido, J. M., Fonseca, E., Valente, A. M., Balseiro, A., Queirós, J., Almeida, V., Vicente, J., Gortázar, C., & Alves, P. C. (2022). Complementary roles of wild boar and red deer to animal tuberculosis maintenance in multi-host communities. Epidemics, 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EPIDEM.2022.100633
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 17-may-2024