Table 3.

Clinical signs, most common sites of gross lesions, route of transmission, epidemiological status, and estimated length of infectious period prior to death of free-ranging African wildlife [2]; (R. G. Bengis, unpublished observations)

^*Route of transmission is frequently linked to sites of gross lesions but secondary haematogenous or lymphogenous spread, and infection of abdominal organs via coughing and swallowing infectious material, also occur;

^†Limited data available;

^‡Possible alternative route of transmission;

^§In high densities may be maintenance hosts of M. bovis.