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. 2024 May 15;11(5):220.
doi: 10.3390/vetsci11050220.

Mapping Bovine Tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001-2019

D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana  1 , S Daniela Jiménez-Diaz  2 , Carlos Lozada-Riascos  3 , Kenneth Silva-Cajaleon  4 , Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales  4   5   6
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Mapping Bovine Tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001-2019

D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana et al. Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Introduction: Bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic disease of significant impact, particularly in countries where a pastoral economy is predominant. Despite its importance, few studies have analysed the disease's behaviour in Colombia, and none have developed maps using geographic information systems (GIS) to characterise it; as such, we developed this study to describe the temporal-spatial distribution of bovine tuberculosis in Colombia over a period of 19 years.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study, based on reports by the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), surveillance of tuberculosis on cattle farms in Colombia from 2001 to 2019 was carried out. The data were converted into databases using Microsoft Access 365®, and multiple epidemiological maps were generated with the QGIS® version 3.36 software coupled to shape files of all the country's departments.

Results: During the study period, 5273 bovine tuberculosis cases were identified in multiple different departments of Colombia (with a mean of 278 cases/year). Regarding its temporal distribution, the number of cases varied from a maximum of 903 cases (17.12% of the total) in 2015 to a minimum of 0 between 2001 and 2004 and between 2017 and 2019 (between 2005 and 2016, the minimum was 46 cases, 0.87%).

Conclusions: GIS are essential for understanding the temporospatial behaviour of zoonotic diseases in Colombia, as is the case for bovine tuberculosis, with its potential implications for the Human and One Health approaches.

Keywords: GIS; Mycobacterium bovis; cattle; geographic information systems; infection; one health; tuberculosis.

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(A). Bovine tuberculosis, the proportion of positive animals per year (%), and number of studied animals, Colombia, 2001–2019. (B). Insert linear trends for 2005–2016, showing a statistically significant reduction (p < 0.05) during those years.
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A. Bovine tuberculosis by herds, number of evaluated herds and proportion of positive herds per year (%), Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of animals positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of animals positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of animals positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of herds positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of herds positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Proportion of herds positive for bovine tuberculosis in Colombia, 2001–2019.
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Process of certification of free-disease herds of the National Program for the Prevention, Control and Eradication of bTB.
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