African Delight Safaris Journey Guidebook

Other organs, such as the kidneys had congested vessels, microthrombi, and hemorrhages, consistent with septicemia. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis advanced contains mycobacteria capable of inflicting tuberculosis in countless wildlife species including suids. The wild boar is usually considered as a spillover or dead-end host for tuberculosis and similar observations have been noted in different wild suids (Corner et al., 1981, Keuling et al., 2013). Generalized lesions and mortality due to tuberculosis are low and infection normally occurs in wild boar populations in touch with livestock and wild ungulates (Keuling et al., 2013, Naranjo et al., 2008). Recent epidemiological studies show this is true for wild boar in central and northern Europe.