Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 45 6 2016 08 15 814 816 Ehsan GHARIB MOMBENI Animal Diseases Control and Monitoring, Khuzestan Province Veterinary Organization, Ahvaz, Iran Nader MOSAVARI Dept. of Tuberculosis, Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Hessarak, Karaj, Iran Morad MORADI GRAVAND Dept. of Tuberculosis, Iran Veterinary Organization, Tehran, Iran Abdol Amir REZAI Dept. of Tuberculosis, Iran Veterinary Organization, Tehran, Iran Rohollah KESHAVARZ Dept. of Tuberculosis, Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Hessarak, Karaj, Iran Keyvan TADAYON Dept. of Tuberculosis, Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Hessarak, Karaj, Iran Reza BAKHSHI Dept. of Tuberculosis, Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Hessarak, Karaj, Iran Reza BEHMANESH Animal Diseases Control and Monitoring, Khuzestan Province Veterinary Organization, Ahvaz, Iran 2016 06 28 2016 06 28 At present, most of Iran is free of bovine tuberculosis (TB). The strategy of control and eradication in Iran involves a tuberculation test and slaughter of reactors, a procedure transformed the present-day prevalence of TB into a sporadic occurrence. This paper describes the first report of bovine tuberculosis in a European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Iran. The deer was emaciated and found dead in the Hoveize Provincial Zoo Park. Post-mortem examinations revealed multifocal granulomatous and suppurative abscesses in the lungs and mesenteric lymph nodes. These post-mortem indicators led the authors to suspect TB, and the PCR test and bacteriology tests confirmed it as an infection by the Mycobacterium bovis. This survey discusses the important implications of such findings for wildlife, especially livestock, as well as for human TB disease control, because deer are often conserved in public zoos and humans often come into contact with them.     https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/7088 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/7088/5443