Table 3 Tissue pools harvested from badger carcasses for microbiological culture.
From: Tuberculosis in found dead badgers at the edge of the expanding bovine tuberculosis epidemic
Tissue pool | Tissues |
|---|---|
Lesions | Individual samples from each gross lesion |
Head and neck | Right and left mandibular, parotid, and retropharyngeal lymph nodes |
Thorax | Anterior and posterior mesenteric and left and right bronchial lymph nodes, and apical lung |
Abdomen | Hepatic and mesenteric lymph nodes |
Carcass pool | Right and left prescapular, axillary, inguinal, and popliteal lymph nodes |
Thoracic blood/fluid | Frozen for serology |
