The rise and fall of tuberculosis in a free-ranging chacma baboon troop in the Kruger National Park

dc.contributor.authorKeet, D.F.
dc.contributor.authorKriek, N.P.J.
dc.contributor.authorBengis, Roy G.
dc.contributor.authorGrobler, D.G.
dc.contributor.editorVerwoerd, Daniel Wynand
dc.contributor.upauthorMichel, Anita Luise
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-18T10:43:15Z
dc.date.available2012-06-18T10:43:15Z
dc.date.created2012
dc.date.issued2000
dc.descriptionThe articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.en
dc.description.abstractA single troop of free-ranging chacma baboons ( Papio ursinus) was found to be infected with tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis. It is assumed that some members of the troop originally became infected when feeding on a tuberculous carcass in the veld or on tuberculous material scavenged at a nearby post mortem facility. Subsequently, apparent aerosol transmission took place while sleeping in an unused room. Oral transmission probably also occurred due to continuous contamination of the floor of this room and the common, narrow access (a train bridge crossing the Sabi River) to it with faeces and urine. A macroscopic prevalence of 50% was found and the disease was noted to progress rapidly in infected baboons. A variety of organs had typical tuberculous lesions, of which the spleen, lungs and mesenteric lymph nodes were consistently, grossly affected. Using Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism analysis, all but one of the baboon isolates were found to be identical to the most common African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer) isolate (genotype 1) in this Park. The opportunistic sleeping facility was made inaccessible to the troop, which was forced to revert to sleeping in trees. A follow-up survey six months after closure, demonstrated that the disease had disappeared from the troop, and that no spillover infection had occurred into neighbouring troops.en
dc.description.librarianmn2012en
dc.identifier.citationKeet, DF, Kriek, NPJ, Bengis, RG, Grobler, DG & Michel, A 2000, 'The rise and fall of tuberculosis in a free-ranging chacma baboon troop in the Kruger National Park’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 115-122.en
dc.identifier.issn0330-2465
dc.identifier.other55978917900
dc.identifier.otherN-8996-2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/19204
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPublished by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute .en
dc.rights© ARC-Onderstepoort (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).en
dc.subjectVeterinary medicineen
dc.subjectChacma baboon (Papio ursinus)en
dc.subjectFree-rangingen
dc.subjectIndoor sleeping facilityen
dc.subjectKruger National Parken
dc.subjectMycobacterium bovisen
dc.subjectPapio ursinusen
dc.subjectTuberculosisen
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcshTuberculosis in animals -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshTuberculosis -- Case studiesen
dc.subject.lcshTuberculosis -- Transmissionen
dc.subject.lcshMycobacterial diseases in animalsen
dc.titleThe rise and fall of tuberculosis in a free-ranging chacma baboon troop in the Kruger National Parken
dc.typeArticleen

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