International Scholarly Research Network ISRN Veterinary Science Volume 2012, Article ID 245138, 7 pages doi:10.5402/2012/245138 Research Article A Two-Years’ Survey on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium caprae in RedDeer(Cervus elaphus) in the Tyrol, Austria Karl Schoepf,1 Wolfgang M. Prodinger,2 Walter Glawischnig,1 Erwin Hofer,3 Sandra Revilla-Fernandez,3 Johannes Hofrichter,4 Johannes Fritz,5 Josef Kofer,¨ 6 and Friedrich Schmoll3 1 Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Veterinary Disease Control Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 70, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 2 Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Fritz-Pregl-Straβe3/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 3 Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Veterinary Disease Control Modling,¨ Robert Koch Gasse 17, 2340 Modling,¨ Austria 4 Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Data, Statistics and Risk Assessment, 8020 Graz, Austria 5 Veterinary Department, Regional Government of the Tyrol, 6600 Reutte, Austria 6 Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinarplatz,¨ 1210 Vienna, Austria Correspondence should be addressed to Wolfgang M. Prodinger,
[email protected] Received 28 June 2012; Accepted 8 August 2012 Academic Editors: O. A. Dellagostin and V. Ritacco Copyright © 2012 Karl Schoepf et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A survey of 143 hunter-harvested red deer for tuberculosis was conducted in an Alpine area in Western Austria over two subsequent years.