“…Both captive and free-ranging felids are susceptible to tuberculosis due mycobacterial infections, mainly by Mycobacterium bovis (bTB). Disease has been described in free-ranging African lions, leopards, cheetah, Iberian lynx, and bobcat Briones et al, 2000;Bruning-Fann et al, 2001;Pérez et al, 2001;Aranaz et al, 2004;Cleaveland et al, 2005;Kirberger et al, 2006;Schmidbauer et al, 2007;Michel et al, 2009;Martinez et al, 2013;Miller et al, 2015). Wild African lions, leopard and cheetah are affected with the same spoligotype and variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) genotypes isolated from sympatric buffalo, while free-ranging lynx in Spain are infected with spoligotypes identical to those in cattle, wild boar and fallow deer.…”