MTBC	Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
EFSA	European Food Safety Authority
WHO	World Health Organization
bTB	bovine tuberculosis
HPLC	High-performance liquid chromatography
MALDI-TOF MS	Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
MIRU-VNTR	Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number of Tandem Repeats
WGS	Whole-Genome Sequencing