Mycobacterium bovis in Coyotes from Michigan

Colleen S. Bruning-Fann; Stephen M. Schmitt; Scott D. Fitzgerald; Janet B. Payeur; Diana L. Whipple; Thomas M. Cooley; Thomas Carlson; Paul Friedrich

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-47.632.636

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1 July 1998 Mycobacterium bovis in Coyotes from Michigan

Colleen S. Bruning-Fann, Stephen M. Schmitt, Scott D. Fitzgerald, Janet B. Payeur, Diana L. Whipple, Thomas M. Cooley, Thomas Carlson, Paul Friedrich

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 34(3):632-636 (1998). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-47.632.636

Abstract

During a survey for tuberculosis in wild carnivores and omnivores, Mycobacterium bovis was cultured from pooled lymph nodes of three adult female coyotes (Canis latrans) harvested by hunters in Michigan (USA). No gross or histologic lesions suggestive of tuberculosis were seen in these animals. One coyote was taken from Montmorency county and two coyotes from Alcona county located in the northeastern portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula where free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have been found infected with bovine tuberculosis. It is thought that these coyotes became infected with M. bovis through the consumption of tuberculous deer. Other species included in the survey were the opossum (Didelphis virginiana), raccoon (Procyonlotor), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), bobcat (Felis rufus), and badger (Taxidea taxus).

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Colleen S. Bruning-Fann, Stephen M. Schmitt, Scott D. Fitzgerald, Janet B. Payeur, Diana L. Whipple, Thomas M. Cooley, Thomas Carlson, and Paul Friedrich "Mycobacterium bovis in Coyotes from Michigan," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 34(3), 632-636, (1 July 1998). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-47.632.636

Received: 22 September 1997; Published: 1 July 1998

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