Interspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?

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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Emma
dc.contributor.authorByrne, Andrew W.
dc.contributor.authorMenzies, Fraser D.
dc.contributor.authorMcBride, Kathryn R.
dc.contributor.authorMcCormick, Carl M.
dc.contributor.authorScantlebury, Neil Reid
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-07T13:45:46Z
dc.date.available2020-07-07T13:45:46Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-09
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 23 April 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractIn Great Britain and Ireland, badgers (Meles meles ) are a wildlife reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis and implicated in bovine tuberculosis transmission to domestic cattle. The route of disease transmission is unknown with direct, so‐called “nose‐to‐nose,” contact between hosts being extremely rare. Camera traps were deployed for 64,464 hr on 34 farms to quantify cattle and badger visitation rates in space and time at six farm locations. Badger presence never coincided with cattle presence at the same time, with badger and cattle detection at the same location but at different times being negatively correlated. Badgers were never recorded within farmyards during the present study. Badgers utilized cattle water troughs in fields, but detections were infrequent (equivalent to one badger observed drinking every 87 days). Cattle presence at badger‐associated locations, for example, setts and latrines, were three times more frequent than badger presence at cattle‐associated locations, for example, water troughs. Preventing cattle access to badger setts and latrines and restricting badger access to cattle water troughs may potentially reduce interspecific bTB transmission through reduced indirect contact.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was part of a PhD studentship funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/147
dc.identifier.citationCampbell, E. L., Byrne, A. W., Menzies, F. D., McBride, K. R., McCormick, C. M., Scantlebury, M. and Reid, N. (2019) ‘Interspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?’, Ecology and Evolution. Wiley, 9(15), pp. 8479–8489. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5282.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2045-7758
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5282
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_US
dc.subjectcamera trapping, disease ecology, meles meles, mycobacterium bovis, surveillance, wildlife-livestock interfaceen_US
dc.titleInterspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-04-23
dcterms.dateSubmitted2018-10-22

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