PREVALENCE OF AND TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE GENES IN WILD BOARS OF CENTRAL EUROPE.

Our aim was to investigate the occurrence and distribution of and other in the wild boar () population of Switzerland and Northern Italy and the detection of tetracycline resistance genes by PCR. We collected a total of 471 conjunctival swabs (=292), rectal swabs (=147), and lung tissue samples (=32) belonging to 292 wild boars. The prevalence of in the investigated wild boar populations was very low (1.