Tuberculosis in wild and domestic animals

Tuberculosis is not uncommon in wild and domestic animals like human beings. Transmission of this disease from man to animals and vice versa is also very common. Tuberculosis or other Mycobacterial infections in wild animals, zoo animals and domestic animals is being frequently reported all over the world. Specially among warm blooded animals like tigers, foxes, wolf, dogs, cats, elephants, cattle’s, monkey and birds besides, cold blooded animals like fishes, frogs, turtles, snakes etc. Most common tubercular infection is Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is found frequently as pulmonary tuberculosis of man. There are number of Mycobacterial strains which are capable of causing tuberculosis like infection or ulcers or leprosy like Infection. In most of the zoo or domestic animals, tuberculosis is transmitted by the infected human being in their surrounding even in fish, frog and birds, the cause of tuberculosis or tuberculosis like infection is the ablution of infected man, on other hand bovine tuberculosis, and cervical lymphadenitis is caused by consuming milk of infected cattle’s. In wild animals, the infection is spread either by other infected animals or by infected human beings. Now a day this is worldwide spreading problem due to diminishing forests and increasing human interference in their habitat.