Multihost Tuberculosis: Insights from the Portuguese Control Program

Table 4

Results of the histopathological analysis of tissue samples from wild boar (𝑛=153) and red deer (𝑛=356) per year for the period 2005–2009, indicating the number of samples presenting lesions in relation to their anatomical localization.

Year	2005		2006		2007		2008		2009		Total
	Boar	Deer	Boar	Deer	Boar	Deer	Boar	Deer	Boar	Deer	Boar	Deer
Lesions	1	18	12	21	3	13	46	54	57	81	119	187
Lung	1	8	1	10	0	4	1	26	3	29	6	77
Liver	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Spleen	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
Lung + LMD	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	5	2	6	4	15
HLN	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	7	0	11	0
LMD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3
LMES	0	2	1	5	0	1	1	3	1	15	3	26
LMD + LME	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
NIL	0	5	7	3	3	7	40	17	43	31	93	63
No lesions	0	2	1	4	11	27	9	132	13	4	34	169
Total	1	20	13	25	14	40	55	186	70	85	153	356

Legend: LMD: mediastinal lymph nodes; LMES: mesenteric lymph nodes; HLN: head lymph nodes; NIL: nonidentified lymph nodes; Lung + LMD: lesions detected both in the lungs and in the mediastinal lymph nodes; LMD + LMES: lesions detected both in mediastinical and mesenteric lymph nodes.