Bovine tuberculosisand its zoonotic importance

Zoonotic diseases are naturally transmitted from animals to humans(WHO,2020.Tuberculosis isone of the mostimportant and widespread zoonotic diseases.Despite slow reductions in the annual burden of active human tuberculosis (TB) cases,zoonotic TB (zTB) remains a poorly monitored and an important unaddressed global problem.Zoonotic tuberculosis (TB), caused byMycobacterium bovis.M.bovisis a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc), which includesM.tuberculosis, M.caprae, M.microti,M.africanum, M.canetti, M.pinnipedii,and M.bovis.Thesebelongs to a single genus Mycobacteriumwithin the family Mycobacteriaceaeand orderActinomycetales(Cocitoet al1994).