Wildlife visits to farm facilities assessed by camera traps in a bovine tuberculosis-infected area in France

摘要: When bovine tuberculosis (bTB) circulates in a multi-host system, it is paramount to characterize the interactions between wildlife and livestock as they may lead interspecific transmission. To that purpose, we undertook 1-year survey 25 farms located an infected area Burgundy region (east central France). We used camera traps deployed on 101 water food access points pastures farm buildings considered attractive for red deer, wild boar, badgers. For each species, analyzed duration of visit, number individuals, their behavior, frequency visits. Wild boar was most frequent with 5.0 visits/100 nights, visits occurred frequently around sources summer. The from deer highest at salt licks Badger more winter pasture feed troughs. These results highlight wide variation patterns contact wildlife-cattle interface among different bTB-susceptible species. Combined other epidemiological data, these data could be both assess risk bTB transmission implement biosecurity measures.