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. 2024 May 21;55:64. doi: 10.1186/s13567-024-01314-w

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Key host species and topics of interest we screened for in the bovine tuberculosis scientific literature published between 1981 and 2022. bTB host species include cattle as well as a range of wild species: badger, wild boar, cervid species (with the following species identified in the literature screened: white-tailed deer, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wapiti elk, sika deer and muntjac deer), brush-tailed possum and wild buffalo. The circles on the outside illustrate the key information sought in peer-reviewed papers dealing with bTB, which has been expanded and clarified in Table 1: type of data collected by researchers; whether spatial analyses were carried out (i.e., in cattle and or wildlife); what type of spatial and temporal scales were considered; whether environmental variables were taken into account (i.e., environment in the farm, environment around the farm and/or weather variables); whether the methodological approach captured the direction of disease transmission; whether the study used common epidemiological modelling techniques (i.e., compartmental models, transmission rates), or whether the study included intra/interspecies interactions in their methodology (i.e., what type of interactions did they look at - e.g., direct and/or indirect, what type of equipment was used to get interactions data and what methodology was used to analyse the data); finally, if human perturbations (i.e., forest felling, culling, vaccination) were taken into account when looking at variables affecting bTB spread, and management solutions to offset the spread of bTB, if any. Animal silhouettes were downloaded from PhyloPic [134]. Cattle, cervid, brushed-tailed possum and wild boar silhouettes are under: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. Buffalo silhouette is by Jan A. Venter, Herbert H. T. Prins, David A. Balfour & Rob Slotow (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) under: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) [135]. Badger silhouette is by Anthony Caravaggi under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) [135]