TURBECULOSE EM BOVINOS NAS MESORREGIÕES: BORBOREMA E ZONA DA MATA, ESTADO DA PARAÍBA (2006 - 2015)

Abstract

Bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic disease of chronic nature, caused by Mycobacte-rium bovis, which causes death by a single agent and causes Losses to cattle breed-ing. The present study was performed using bovine data diagnosed by the tuberculin-ization tests from January 2006 to December 2015. The aim was to evaluate the possible determinants and / or conditioning factors of tuberculosis and to contextual-ize them in the Borborema mesoregion and Zona da Mata mesoregion from Paraíba in the national territory. During the study period, a total of 68 infected animals, 40 in the Borborema mesoregion and 28 in the Zona da Mata, with a frequency of 0.0234% and 0.0285%, respectively. The city of Mari, a mesoregion of Zona da Ma-ta, stood out as the city with the highest number of cases (N = 22). The months be-tween January and March showed the highest indexes in the region of Borborema and the month of September in the Zona da Mata. The years 2007 and 2009 were the years with the largest number of infected animals, from the year 2009 there was a decline in the presence of the disease. Between the years of 2013 and 2014 no cases of the disease were reported. The results show that the Borborema mesore-gion presents a higher number of positive animals than the Zona da Mata mesore-gion. The females showed more cases of the disease than the males. There was a decline in zoonosis over the years studied.