Table 1.

Cattle tissues identified with suspicious tuberculosis lesions and mycobacteria

Type of tissue	Number of tissue with lesion(s)	aAFB positive, +n(%)
Submandibular lymph node	2	1(50.0)
Retropharyngeal lymph node	4	3(75.0)
Tonsilar lymph node	3	1(33.3)
Mediastinal lymph node	12	1(8.33)
Bronchial lymph node	10	1(10.0)
Mesenteric lymph node	43	3(7.00)
Lung tissue	6	2(33.3)
Liver tissue	14	4(28.6)
Kidney tissue	2	1(50.0)
Total	96	17(17.7)

^aAcid fast bacilli; +number of tissues positive for AFB; The 96 tissues suspected of having tuberculosis lesion(s) were identified from 79 of 2846 cattle slaughtered at Bahir Dar Abattoir, northwestern Ethiopia. Of which 17 tissues identified containing mycobacteria by Ziehl-Neelsen staining and were recorded from carcasses of only 12 cattle