TY - JOUR AU - Magnani, Rossella AU - Cavalca, Mauro AU - Pierantoni, Marco AU - Luppi, Andrea AU - Cantoni, Anna Maria AU - Prosperi, Alice AU - Pacciarini, Maria AU - Zanoni, Mariagrazia AU - Tamba, Marco AU - Santi, Annalisa AU - Bonardi, Silvia PY - 2020/04/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Infection by Mycobacterium caprae in three cattle herds in Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy JF - Italian Journal of Food Safety JA - Ital J Food Safety VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.4081/ijfs.2020.8467 UR - https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/8467 SP - AB - <p>Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a contagious chronic disease associated with progressive emaciation (starvation) and tubercles (granuloma) formation commonly caused by <em>Mycobacterium bovis.</em> In cattle, <em>M. caprae</em> may also be responsible for bTB. In EU, human tuberculosis due to <em>M. bovis</em> had a notification rate of 0.04 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, but data did not include <em>M. caprae</em> infections. From September 2018 to April 2019, bTB outbreaks were investigated in three neighbouring dairy cattle herds in Parma province, Northern Italy. Parma municipality belongs to an officially free of bovine tuberculosis (OTF) Italian region. Official testing on cattle herds, performed every three years as legally required, revealed no positive animals. Tubercular lesions were found during the post mortem (PM) examination of slaughtered cattle and <em>M. caprae</em> genotype SB0418/VNTR 4,3,5,3,4,5,2,2,4, 3,15,5 was isolated. This report confirms the crucial importance of PM veterinary inspection at slaughterhouse, despite the OTF status of cattle herds.</p> ER -