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Sang-Hun Kwon1, Jeong Soo Choi2, Min-Gyeong Seo1
1Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University (GNU), 501, Jinju-daero, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
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Abstract:
From 2017 to 2023, 196 dead Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus), a common wildlife species in Republic of Korea, were necropsied. In one deer, bovine tuberculosis infection was confirmed through necropsy, histopathologic examination, and microbiologic diagnosis.

