ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018
Spatial Analysis of Wildlife Tuberculosis Based on a Serologic Survey Using Dried Blood Spots, Portugal.
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- Serosurvey of tuberculosis in wild boars in Xinjiang, Northwest China: a pilot study.Irish veterinary journal · 2026Article
- Nationwide seroprevalence ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- The Suitability of Dried Blood Spot Sampling for Pharmacokinetic Studies in Veterinary Medicine.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Tuberculosis in wild animals in India.Veterinary research communications · 2024Review
- Host-, Environment-, or Human-Related Effects Drive Interspecies Interactions in an Animal Tuberculosis Multi-Host Community Depending on the Host and Season.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- 15 years overview of European zoonotic surveys in wild boar and red deer: A systematic review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Presence of Foodborne Bacteria in Wild Boar and Wild Boar Meat-A Literature Survey for the Period 2012-2022.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Dried Blood Spots technology for veterinary applications and biological investigations: technical aspects, retrospective analysis, ongoing status and future perspectives.Veterinary research communications · 2022Review
- The Association between Palmer Drought Severity Index Data and Tuberculosis-like Lesions Occurrence in Mediterranean Hunted Wild Boars.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Review of Methods Used for Diagnosing Tuberculosis in Captive and Free-Ranging Non-Bovid Species (2012-2020).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Long-term molecular surveillance provides clues on a cattle origin for Mycobacterium bovis in Portugal.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
We investigated the spatial epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in wildlife in a multihost system. We surveyed bovine TB in Portugal by serologic analysis of elutes of dried blood spots obtained from hunted wild boar. We modeled spatial disease risk by using areal generalized linear mixed models with conditional autoregressive priors. Antibodies against Mycobaterium bovis were detected in 2.4% (95% CI 1.5%-3.8%) of 678 wild boar in 2 geographic clusters, and the predicted risk fits well with independent reports of M. bovis culture. Results show that elutes are an almost perfect substitute for serum (Cohen unweighted κ = 0.818), indicating that serologic tests coupled with dried blood spots are an effective strategy for large-scale bovine TB surveys, using wild boar as sentinel species. Results also show that bovine TB is an emerging wildlife disease and stress the need to prevent further geographic spread and prevalence increase.
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