Abattoir and Bovine Tuberculosis as A Reemerging Foodborne Disease

Shaltout FA

Published on: 2023-12-28

Abstract

An abattoir is the place in which animals are slaughtered for human consumption. Abattoir plays an important role in the prevention of zoonotic diseases between animals and humans, like Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a reemerging foodborne disease, and also in preventing infectious diseases between animals. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is caused by a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae. The causative agent bacteria of bovine tuberculosis as a reemerging foodborne disease the tuberculosis bacteria have an unusual, waxy coating on its cell surface, primarily due to the presence of mycolic acid. This coating makes the cells impervious to Gram staining, and as a result, the causative agent bacteria of bovine tuberculosis, a reemerging foodborne disease, can appear weakly Gram-positive. Acid-fast stains such as Ziehl-Neelsen stain or fluorescent stains such as auramine are used instead to identify the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis as a reemerging foodborne disease with a microscope. The causative agent bacteria of bovine tuberculosis, a reemerging foodborne disease, is highly aerobic and requires high levels of oxygen. Primarily a pathogen of the mammalian respiratory system, it infects the lungs. The most frequently used diagnostic methods for bovine tuberculosis as a reemerging foodborne disease are the tuberculin skin examination, acid-fast stain, culture, and polymerase chain reaction.