Sarah Tomlinson

Kingshay, TBAS director and member of the bTB Partnership

Figure 1. Speakers and panellists from the conference, left to right: James Wood, Stephen Dennis, Abi Reader, Helen Forrester, Tom Bradshaw, Jude McCann, Keith Cutler, Ele Brown, Ruth Little, Sarah Tomlinson, Tony Roberts, Brendon Griffin, Bridget Taylor and Chris Addison
Opinion

National TB Conference: a collaborative approach towards a TB-free future

On the 29 November at the Sixways Stadium in Worcester, over 260 delegates attended a National TB Conference. The title was ‘A collaborative approach towards a tb free future’. I think the large...

Figure 1. When planning to control bovine tuberculosis and paratuberculosis it is important to detect infected animals, rather than just diseased animals, and manage both appropriately.
Professional

Control of bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle

Does OTF status mean that a herd is actually free of endemic M. bovis infection or is the skin test failing to identify infected animals, particularly in herds that have recently regained OTF status?...