Table 3.
Summary table of livestock testing results for eight studies
| First Author | Animal Species | Animal location at time of testing | Test methods and results | Study human subject zTB % (M. bovis) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIDT | Slaughter‐ TB lesions identified | Type of biologic sample | Culture | Molecular diagnostics M. bovis positive | ||||
| Ameni | Cattle | Household | 36/ 2,033 (1.8%) | 33/36 (91.7%) | Tissue | 24/33 (72.7%) | 3/24 (12.5%) | 0% |
| Gumi | Cattle | Abattoirs | ‐ | 50/ 5,250 (1.0%) | Tissue | 36/50 (72%) | 24/36 (66.7%) | 1.02% |
| Goats | ‐ | 76/1744 (4.4%) | Tissue | 9/76 (11.8%) | 0 (0%) | |||
| Camels | ‐ | 81/694 (11.7%) | Tissue | 3/81 (3.7%) | 0 (0%) | |||
| Malama | Cattle | Abattoirs | ‐ | 67/ 288 (23.3%) | Tissue | 47/ 67 (70.1%) | 25/ 47 (53.2%) | 2% |
| Mengistu | Cattle | Household | 5/ 381 (1.3%) | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | 0% |
| Milian‐ Suazo | Cattle | Abattoir | ‐ | 58/ NS | Tissue | NS | 58/NS | 6.2% |
| Nuru | Cattle | Household | 0/NS | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | 2.9% |
| Prasad | Cattle | Single government herd | ‐ | ‐ | Tissue | M. tb: 9/56 (16.1%) | M. tb: 16/56 (28.6%) | 10.3% |
| Tissue | M. bovis: 7/56 (12.5%) | M. bovis: 15/56 (26.8%) | ||||||
| Tissue | mixed: 1/56 (1.8%) | mixed: 20/56 (35.7%) | ||||||
| Rahman | Cattle | Government and private dairy farms | ‐ | ‐ | Milk | ‐ | 37/300 | 6.7% |
Abbreviations: CIDT, comparative intradermal tuberculin test; M. tb, M. tuberculosis; NS, not stated; dashline (‐), test not performed.