Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
The eradication of M. caprae tuberculosis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Bieszczady Mountains, southern Poland – an administrative perspective Cover

The eradication of M. caprae tuberculosis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Bieszczady Mountains, southern Poland – an administrative perspective

Open Access
|Feb 2023

Figures & Tables

Table 1

The number of wild boar samples tested in 2013–2020 and the number of confirmed TB cases

Year20132014201520162017201820192020Total
Number of wild boar tested21*27**28291151104
Number positives of (M. confirmed caprae)9*14**25915146

[i] * 2013 – including one wild boar from the Leski county (bordering the Bieszczady county)

** 2014 – including one wild boar from the Przemyśl county (bordering the Bieszczady county)

Another wild boar was obtained from the Bieszczady county

Fig. 1

A segment of a mediastinal node with nodules about 10 mm in diameter

Table 2

Description of SB2391 spoligotype

PatternOctal codeHex codeSpoligotypeAnimal of strains) (number
□■□□□□□□□□□□□□□□■■■■■■■■■■■ □■■■■■■■■■□□□□□□20000377737740020-00-1F-7E-FF-40SB2391*wild boar (46)

[i] * — Assigned by the Mycobacterium bovis spoligotype database

Fig. 2

Locations of TB-positive samples obtained from wild boar (red points) in 2013–2020. Yellow area – the range of bison from the Górny San herd

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2023-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2450-8608 (formerly 2300-3235)
Language: English
Page range: 61 - 66
Submitted on: Aug 4, 2022
Accepted on: Feb 9, 2023
Published on: Feb 28, 2023
Published by: National Veterinary Research Institute in Pulawy
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2023 Mirosław Welz, Monika Krajewska-Wędzina, Blanka Orłowska, Anna Didkowska, Łukasz Radulski, Przemysław Łoś, Marcin Weiner, Krzysztof Anusz, published by National Veterinary Research Institute in Pulawy
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.