Prevalence and public health risk of tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria in captive asian elephants (Elephas maximus Linnaeus) in Peninsular Malaysia

• Main Author: Yakubu, Yusuf
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Tuberculosis in animals
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56746/1/FPV%202015%2016.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56746/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem worldwide with an estimated 9 million cases in 2013 and over 100 million deaths in the last century. The disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is estimated to infect one third of the world human population and was declared a global hea...