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Endemic caseous lymphadenitis in a wild Caprinae population.

L Varela-Castro1, J Lara-Vergara1, N Ortega2

  • 1Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (SEFaS), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain.

The Veterinary Record
|March 10, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is endemic in Iberian ibex populations in Spain. Higher ibex population density and proximity to aggregation points increase the risk of CLA infection in wild Caprinae.

Keywords:
Capra pyrenaicaCaseous lymphadenitisCorynebacterium pseudotuberculosisWildlife-livestock interface

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