Volume 12, Number 5—May 2006
THEME ISSUE
Tuberculosis Special Section
Dispatch
Mycobacterium bovis Isolates from Tuberculous Lesions in Chadian Zebu Carcasses
Table
Specimens collected at the main slaughterhouse of N'Djaména, Chad, and specifications of the condemned carcasses
Organ/tissue | n | Condemnation |
Breed |
Sex |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entire | Partial | Arab | Mbororo | Male | Female | ||
Lymph nodes | 116 | 17 | 99 | 67 | 49 | 8 | 108 |
Lungs | 75 | 13 | 62 | 51 | 24 | 1 | 74 |
Lungs and lymph nodes | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Liver | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Miliary tuberculosis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 199 | 30 | 169 | 124 | 75 | 9 | 190 |
1These authors contributed equally to this study.