| surveillance of wildlife for mycobacterium bovis infection using culture of pooled tissue samples from ferrets (mustela furo). | to compare culture results of homogenates of pooled lymph nodes from individual ferrets with and without macroscopic lesions of bovine tuberculosis for the presence of mycobacterium bovis, and to determine whether homogenates from 10-30 ferrets could be combined and cultured without loss of sensitivity as a possible method for improving cost-effectiveness of surveillance for m. bovis infection in wildlife populations. | 2005 | 15731829 |