Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and its associated risk factors in the emerging dairy belts of regional cities in Ethiopia
A cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and identify associated risk factors
Abstract
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) has become an economically important disease in dairy herds found in and around Addis Ababa City and is emerging in regional cities like Gondar, Hawassa and Mekelle because of the establishment of dairy farms in the milk sheds of these cities. A cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of BTB and identify associated risk factors was conducted between February 2016 and March 2017. A total of 174 herds comprising of 2,754 dairy cattle in the cities of Gondar, Hawassa and Mekelle were tested using the Single Intradermal Comparative Cervical Tuberculin (SICCT) test.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.
Citation
Mekonnen G, Conlan A, Berg S, Ayele B, Alemu A, Guta S, Lakew M, Tadesse B, Gebre S, Wood J, Ameni G; ETHICOBOTS consortium (2019). Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and its associated risk factors in the emerging dairy belts of regional cities in Ethiopia. Prev Vet Med. 168:81-89.