Table 3.

Microbiology and Serology Status of Samples (Tissues and Blood, Respectively) Collected from Muskoxen that had Gross Lesions with Brucella Infection Listed as a Possible Differential Diagnosis.

Location	Year	Identified lesion	Status
			B. suis biovar 4	Serology
Ulukhaktok	1996	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Ulukhaktok	1996	Nephritis, splenitis, lymphadenitis	Positive	n/a
Ulukhaktok	1996	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Skin abscess	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Squamous cell carcinoma	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Lymphadenitis	Positive	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Fat abscess	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	1998	Lymphadenitis	Negative	Negative1
Cambridge Bay	2014	Metatarsal abscess	Positivea	Positive2
Cambridge Bay	2016	Bilateral abscesses in the vagina	Negative	Negative2
Cambridge Bay	2016	Granulomatous mastitis, endometritis, lymphadenitis, nephritis	Positive	Positive2

Bacteriology status of muskoxen was determined by culturing tissues with identified lesions; while serology status of muskoxen was determined by BPAT on sera (¹), A/G iELISA on paired sera and filter papers eluates (²), or was not available (n/a).

^aTomaselli et al. (2016).