RESUMEN

In 1931 Carpantier reported bovine TB (BTB) in Iranian cattle. Some eighty years on with a national test-and-slaughter programme in place for over four decades, the efforts to vanquish Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection in cattle have been in vain as the vast majority of the 30 Iranian provinces still have reports of BTB in their cattle herds every year. This paper reviews the present epidemiology of BTB in Iran and in the region and evaluates the success of government policy in controlling this disease.

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Bovinos/microbiología , Políticas , Tuberculosis Bovina/epidemiología , Animales , Trazado de Contacto , Recolección de Datos , Reservorios de Enfermedades/microbiología , Reservorios de Enfermedades/veterinaria , Geografía , Irán/epidemiología , Mycobacterium bovis/genética , Prueba de Tuberculina/veterinaria , Tuberculosis Bovina/microbiología