ArticleEpidemiology and infection2013
First reported case of fatal tuberculosis in a wild African elephant with past human-wildlife contact.
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- Molecular detection ofNew microbes and new infections · 2021Article
- Fatal Tuberculosis in a Free-Ranging African Elephant and One Health Implications of Human Pathogens in Wildlife.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Article
- Mycobacterium caprae Infection in Captive Borneo Elephant, Japan.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Bronchoalveolar lavage for diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in elephants.Epidemiology and infection · 2018Article
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Free-Roaming Wild Asian Elephant.Emerging infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Wild Asian Elephants, Southern India.Emerging infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Tuberculosis in Laos, who is at risk: the mahouts or their elephants?Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- The global one health paradigm: challenges and opportunities for tackling infectious diseases at the human, animal, and environment interface in low-resource settings.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014Review
- A review of tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Zambia.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2013Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis is emerging/re-emerging in captive elephant populations, where it causes morbidity and deaths, although no case of TB in wild African elephants has been reported. In this paper we report the first case of fatal TB in an African elephant in the wild. The infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis was confirmed by post-mortem and histological examinations of a female sub-adult elephant aged >12 years that died in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, while under treatment. This case is unique in that during its lifetime the elephant had contact with both humans and wild elephants. The source of the infection was unclear because the elephant could have acquired the infection in the orphanage or in the wild. However, our results show that wild elephants can maintain human TB in the wild and that the infection can be fatal.
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