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Received: 11 July 2017

Accepted: 27 February 2018

First Online: 7 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Participation in the study by the farmers was on a voluntary basis and those farmers who volunteered to participate have given their oral consent to include their animals in the study.Bovine tuberculosis is one of the priority diseases for control and eradication by the government of Eritrea. Skin testing is an official method for diagnosis of BTB in the country. The skin testing in the current study was conducted with the involvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, animal health unit staff, and all the datasets included in this study were issued from animals analyzed within an official context. No deliberate killing of animals was performed for this study. For the human component, this study was submitted to and got approval by the ‘Health Research proposal review and Ethical committee’, unit of planning policy and HRD, Ministry of Health, Asmara, Eritrea, on 16/05/2013.

: Not applicable. Information that may compromise the farmers’ identities are de-identified in all the files.

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