title: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections of veterinary relevance.
abstract: Mycobacteria play an important role in human and animal health fields. We here examine the place of non tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections in the veterinary context. Relevant aspects of a reference laboratory experience and a literature review are presented in this article. Importance is given both to productivity and to economic losses due to misdiagnosis with bovine tuberculosis and paratuberculosis. The impact NTM may have is relative to geographical location, ecology, husbandry, extent of surveillance programs and bovine tuberculosis and paratuberculosis prevalence. The role of the most relevant NTM in animal disease is summarized with a special focus on Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, given its role as causative agent of paratuberculosis, a disease with huge economic consequences for ruminant livestock.
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, INRA Centre Val de Loire, Université de Tours, Unité Mixte de Recherches 1282, 37380 Nouzilly, France.
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Biet
authors.affiliation: University Paris-Est, Anses, Laboratory for Animal Health, Bovine tuberculosis National Reference Laboratory, Bacterial Zoonoses Unit, 23, avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94706 Maisons-Alfort, France. Electronic address: Maria-laura.BOSCHIROLI@anses.fr.
authors.forename: Maria Laura
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Boschiroli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors / Q000191:economics; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D016927:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis / Q000472:pathogenicity; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000472:pathogenicity; D010283:Paratuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012418:Ruminants; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000191:economics*
keywords: Bovine TB diagnosis interference; Map; Mycobacterial ecology; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; TB-like lesions