The bovine tuberculosis burden in cattle herds in zones with low dose radiation pollution in Ukraine

• Title: The bovine tuberculosis burden in cattle herds in zones with low dose radiation pollution in Ukraine

Author: Richard Weller, Artem Skrypnyk, Andriy Zavgorodniy, Borys Stegniy, Anton Gerilovych, Oleksandr Kutsan, Svitlana Pozmogova and Svitlana Sapko

Reference: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, 2009

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Abstract: The authors describe a study of the tuberculosis (TB) incidence in cattle exposed to low doses of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl (pronounced ‘Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) nuclear plant catastrophe in 1986. The purpose of the study was to determine if ionising radiation influences the number of outbreaks of bovine TB and their severity on farms in the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Chernigiv regions of Ukraine. These farms are all located within a 200 km radius of Chernobyl and have had low-dose radiation pollution.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20391374

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