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