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Article History

Received: 14 August 2017

Accepted: 5 April 2018

First Online: 13 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study complies with national guidelines of South Africa for routine surveillance/ diagnosis of tuberculosis and other mycobacterioses diseases [Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) SOP 002; Animal Diseases Act 35 of 1984]. As such no ethics approval was needed for this study as samples were submitted for routine diagnosis.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. TH and NG are employees of the Agricultural Research Council.

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