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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Veterinary Medicine International Volume 2011, Article ID 953985, 8 pages doi:10.4061/2011/953985 Research Article Bovine Tuberculosis in a Nebraska Herd of Farmed Elk and Fallow Deer: A Failure of the Tuberculin Skin Test and Opportunities for Serodiagnosis W. Ray Waters,1 Gary E. Stevens,2 Mark A. Schoenbaum,3 Kathy A. Orloski,3 Suelee Robbe-Austerman,4 N. Beth Harris,4 S. Mark Hall,4 Bruce V. Thomsen,4 Arach J. Wilson,4 Roger E. Brannian,4 Jeffrey T. Nelson,4 Shawn Schafer,5 Javan Esfandiari,6 Meghan Dutton,6 Rena Greenwald,6 and Konstantin P. Lyashchenko6 1 National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Ames, IA 50010, USA 2 National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), USDA, Lincoln, NE 68516, USA 3 NVSL, APHIS, USDA, Fort Collins, CO 80526-8117, USA 4 NVSL, APHIS, USDA, Ames, IA 50010, USA 5 North American Deer Farmers Association, Lake City, MN 55041, USA 6 Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Medford, NY 11763, USA Correspondence should be addressed to W. Ray Waters, ray.waters@ Received 10 January 2011; Accepted 20 February 2011 Academic Editor: Michael D. Welsh Copyright © 2011 W. Ray Waters et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In 2009, Mycobacterium bovis infection was detected in a herd of 60 elk (Cervus elaphus) and 50 fallow deer (Dama dama) in Nebraska, USA. Upon depopulation of the herd, the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) was estimated at ∼71–75%, based upon hi