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, 2011). Due to its widespread distribution and its sanitary and economic impact, preventive animal health programmes for bTB eradication, mainly based on test and slaughter policies and/or abattoir surveillance, are being carried out in different countries (Schiller et?al., 2011; Rodr��guez-Prieto et?al., 2012). In Spain, despite the large amount of human and financial resources annually invested in bTB control, there are certain areas in which the number of infected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAP70 herds is nearly unchanged and far from the http://www.selleckchem.com/products/BIBW2992.html risen in south-western Spain in recent years as the hunting industry is an important economic activity in this area. However, effective sanitary programmes have not been implemented in these populations (Gort��zar et?al., 2006) and today the prevalence of bTB in wild boar and red deer is very high (16% in red deer and 50% in wild boar) (Gort��zar et?al., 2012). Wild boar is considered the main bTB wildlife reservoir in Mediterranean ecosystems (Parra et?al., 2003; Hermoso de Mendoza et?al., 2006; Naranjo et?al., 2008). The risk factors http://www.selleckchem.com/products/BKM-120.html that may predispose this species to high prevalence of bTB have been widely studied (Gort��zar et?al., 2011). Factors such as high population density (Gort��zar et?al., 2006), age (Vicente et?al., 2006) or individual susceptibility (Acevedo-Whitehouse et?al., 2005) have been associated with high prevalence of this disease in wild boar. However, no studies have been published on the influence that co-infections with other pathogens (mainly viruses) may have on the development of bTB in wild boar. In this sense, it has been suggested that porcine circovirus infection may trigger the development of bTB in wild boar (Vicente et?al., 2004). Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) is widespread in Spanish wild boar (Vicente et?al., 2004). The susceptibility of wild boar to the post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) with clinical signs and lesions resembling those described in domestic pigs has been shown (Schulze et?al., 2004). The characteristic lymphocyte depletion of this viral infection may affect the immune system of wild boar leading to immunosupression and aggravation of concomitant infections (Cs��gola et?al., 2006).