A Review of Bovine Tuberculosis in the Kafue Basin Ecosystem

Table 2

Factors influencing BTB in the livestock/wildlife interface areas of the Kafue basin.

Host Factors	Environmental factors	Pathogen
High Cattle densities	Swampy/Marshy environments	Showed maintenance in lechwe antelopes for a very long time establishing reservoir host potential
High Lechwe densities	Moist pastures for most parts of the year	Shown potential for interspecies and intraspecies spread
High Cattle/lechwe interaction heightening potential of aerosol route of infection	Moist soil conditions
Lechwe lekking behavior	Shrinking grazing grounds
	Alien invasive weeds (Mimosa pigra) spreading on already shrinking pastures
	Overlapping grazing grounds for lechwe antelopes and cattle