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Case Reports
. 2016 Sep 30;17(3):427-9.
doi: 10.4142/jvs.2016.17.3.427.

Mycobacterium bovis infection in a wild sow (Sus scrofa): first case in Korea

Bok Kyung Ku  1   2 , Bo-Young Jeon  3 , Jae Myung Kim  2 , Young-Boo Jang  2 , Yunho Jang  2 , So Yoon Yu  2 , Jiro Kim  3 , Oun Kyung Moon  2 , Suk Chan Jung  2 , Min Kwon Lee  4 , Tae Nam Jeong  5
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Mycobacterium bovis infection in a wild sow (Sus scrofa): first case in Korea

Bok Kyung Ku et al. J Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Mycobacterium (M.) bovis causes tuberculosis and has a broad host range, including humans, livestock, and wild animals. M. bovis infection of wild boar has been reported in several European countries. We report here the first case of M. bovis infection in a domesticated wild sow in Korea. Granulomatous and necrotizing lesions with small numbers of acid-fast bacilli were observed in nodules of the lung of wild sow. Furthermore, the M. bovis isolate from the wild sow had spoligotype SB0140 and a novel MIRU-VNTR allelic profile, which is not found in cattle and deer in Korea.

Keywords: Korea; Mycobacterium bovis; wild sow.

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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Visible lesions and Ziehl-Neelsen staining of the lungs of wild sow. (A) Visible lesions in the nodules of the lung from a wild sow showing well-demarcated yellow caseous nodules (arrowheads) at the cut surface. (B) Ziehl–Neelsen staining of a lung section nodule shows acid-fast bacilli (arrows) in a granuloma. Scale bar = 10 µm.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Agarose gel electrophoresis of the polymerase chain reaction products using primers for the rpoB gene (518 bp), RD8 (Mycobacterium [M.] bovis and M. bovis BCG, 360 bp; M. tuberculosis, 150 bp), and RD1 (254 bp). Lane M, 100-bp DNA size marker; Lane 1, wild boar isolate; Lane 2, M. bovis AN5; Lane 3, M. bovis BCG Pasteur; Lane 4, M. tuberculosis H37Rv.
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