bovinetuberculosis-iowastateuniversity-BovineTuberculosis.pptVIP

Tuberculosis can be difficult to diagnose based only on the clinical signs. In developed countries, few infections become symptomatic; most are diagnosed by routine testing or found at the slaughterhouse. In cervids, tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis when abscesses of unknown etiology are found. The differential diagnosis includes contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, Pasteurella or Corynebacterium pyogenes pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia which is often secondary to chronic wasting disease in cervids , traumatic pericarditis, caseous lymphadenitis or melioidosis in