Title: Implications of Interspecies Transmission and Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Free-Ranging Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius )
Running Title: Mycobacterium bovis infection in common hippopotamus
Authors: Tanya J. Kerr1#, Wynand J. Goosen1#*, Rachiel Gumbo1, Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist2, Oonagh Pretorius3, Peter E. Buss4, Léanie Kleynhans1, Konstantin P. Lyashchenko5, Robin M. Warren1, Paul D. van Helden1, Michele A. Miller1