title: [Development of control and eradication of tuberculosis among cattle in GDR].
abstract: Report on the development of tuberculosis control among cattle being a process not free from contradictions and disappointments for a long time. In 1956 the prevalence rate of tuberculosis infection among cattle amounted to 48%; half of all cows infected excreting tubercle bacilli with milk. Tuberculosis was rather common among other domestic animals, too. In 1955 in dose connexion with the socialist reorganisation of agriculture a complex programme of eradicating tuberculosis among cattle was resolved and initiated in GDR. Since 1978 tuberculosis among cattle is eliminated bringing also a higher productivity in milk and meat.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D002417:Cattle; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005859:Germany, East; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000517:prevention & control*
vernacular_title: Zur Entwicklung der Tuberkulosebekäkampfung und Tilgung der Rindertuberkulose in der DDR.