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dc.contributor.authorAcevedo, Pelayo
dc.contributor.authorPrieto, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorQuirós, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorMerediz, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorJuan Ferre, Lucia de 
dc.contributor.authorInfantes-Lorenzo, Jose Antonio 
dc.contributor.authorTriguero-Ocaña, Roxana
dc.contributor.authorBalseiro, Ana
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T07:58:33Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T07:58:33Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-10
dc.identifier.citationPathogens. 2019 Dec 10;8(4). pii: E292.es_ES
dc.identifier.issn2076-0817es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/8912
dc.description.abstract: We provide a temporal overview (from 2012 to 2018) of the outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) in the cattle and badger populations in a hot-spot in Asturias (Atlantic Spain). We also study the badger's spatial ecology from an epidemiological perspective in order to describe hazardous behavior in relation to TB transmission between cattle and badgers. Culture and single intradermal tuberculin test (SITT) were available for cattle as part of the National Program for the Eradication of TB. A field survey was also carried out in order to determine the paddocks and buildings used by each farm, and the information obtained was stored by using geographic information systems. Moreover, eighty-three badgers were submitted for necropsy and subsequent bacteriological studies. Ten badgers were also tracked, using global positioning system (GPS) collars. The prevalence of TB in cattle herds in the hot-spot increased from 2.2% in 2012 to 20% in 2016; it then declined to 0.0% in 2018. In contrast, the TB prevalence in badgers increased notably (from 5.55% in 2012-2015 to 10.64% in 2016-2018). Both cattle and badgers shared the same strain of Mycobacterium bovis. The collared badgers preferred paddocks used by TB-positive herds in spring and summer (when they were more active). The males occupied larger home ranges than the females (Khr95: males 149.78 ± 25.84 ha and females 73.37 ± 22.91 ha; Kcr50: males 29.83 ± 5.69 ha and females 13.59 ± 5.00 ha), and the home ranges were smaller in autumn and winter than in summer. The averages of the index of daily and maximum distances traveled by badgers were 1.88 ± (SD) 1.20 km and 1.99 ± 0.71 km, respectively. One of them presented a dispersive behavior with a maximum range of 18.3 km. The most preferred habitat was apple orchards in all seasons, with the exception of winter, in which they preferred pastures. Land uses and landscape structure, which have been linked with certain livestock-management practices, provide a scenario of great potential for badger-cattle interactions, thus enhancing the importance of the badgers' ecology, which could potentially transmit TB back to cattle in the future.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was funded by the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) projects (FEDER co-funded): RTA2011-00010-00-00, RTA2014-00002-C02-01; by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) reference project RTI2018-096010-B-C21 (FEDER co-funded); and by PCTI 2018–2020 (GRUPIN: IDI2018-000237) and FEDER. We received funds from RTI2018-096010-B-C21 (FEDER co-funded) to cover publication costs.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) es_ES
dc.type.hasVersionVoRes_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectMeles meleses_ES
dc.subjectBadgeres_ES
dc.subjectCattlees_ES
dc.subjectEcologyes_ES
dc.subjectEpidemiologyes_ES
dc.subjectMulti-host systemes_ES
dc.subjectTuberculosises_ES
dc.titleTuberculosis Epidemiology and Badger (Meles meles) Spatial Ecology in a Hot-Spot Area in Atlantic Spaines_ES
dc.typejournal articlees_ES
dc.rights.licenseAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
dc.identifier.pubmedID31835627es_ES
dc.format.volume8es_ES
dc.format.number4es_ES
dc.format.page292es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/pathogens8040292es_ES
dc.contributor.funderUnión Europea. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER/ERDF) 
dc.contributor.funderAgencia Estatal de Investigación (España) 
dc.description.peerreviewedes_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens8040292es_ES
dc.identifier.journalPathogens (Basel, Switzerland)es_ES
dc.repisalud.centroISCIII::Centro Nacional de Microbiologíaes_ES
dc.repisalud.institucionISCIIIes_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/RTA2011-00010-00-00es_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/RTA2014-00002-C02-01es_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/GRUPIN: IDI2018-000237es_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/RTI2018-096010-B-C21es_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accesses_ES


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