Pathology of naturally occurring bovine tuberculosis in England and Wales

E Liebana, L Johnson, J Gough, P Durr, K Jahans… - The Veterinary …, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to obtain a contemporary data set of pathology in tuberculin
reactor and in-contact cattle in England and Wales. Four hundred animals (200 reactors and
200 in-contacts) from 242 farms located in 14 counties in Western England and Wales were
examined. The mean number of lymph nodes (LNs) with tuberculosis (TB)-like lesions per
TB-confirmed animal was 1.7 in reactors and 1.5 in in-contact animals. Tuberculous lesions
in both reactor and in-contact animals were most commonly observed in the LNs of the …