title: A review of the contemporary knowledge of bovine tuberculosis and government policy in Iran.
abstract: 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.
authors: Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Iran.
authors: Keyvan
authors: K
authors: Tadayon
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Forbes
authors: Davoud
authors: D
authors: Soleimani
authors: Reza Aref
authors: RA
authors: Pajoohi
authors: Bahman
authors: B
authors: Marhmati
authors: Jamaloddin
authors: J
authors: Javidi
authors: Rouholah
authors: R
authors: Keshavarz
authors: Kioomars
authors: K
authors: Soleimani
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Shakibamehr
authors: Mohammad Mohammad
authors: MM
authors: Taheri
authors: Shojaat Dashti
authors: SD
authors: Pour
authors: Nader
authors: N
authors: Mosavari
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000382:microbiology*; D016358:Contact Tracing; D003625:Data Collection; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D005843:Geography; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000235:genetics; D057766:Policy; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000662:veterinary; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology