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The Mediterranean Iberic regions have a favourable ecosystem for the development of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex agents, where habitat, population dynamics, and climate (especially drought) are important factors affecting the high prevalence of tuberculosis in the wild boar population. Our objective was to study the association between the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and the occurrence of tuberculosis-like lesions (TBL) in wild boar during nine hunting seasons (2008\/09 to 2016\/17) in Idanha-a-Nova County. To this end, statistical analysis revealed a significant association (p &lt; 0.05) between the occurrence of TBL in wild boar in Idanha-a-Nova County and the analysed risk factor\u2014previous season with periods of drought\u2014which indicated that, when one season experiences some periods of drought, the probability of TBL occurrence in wild boars was 1.2 (OR = 1.2) times higher in the next hunting season than when there were no periods of drought. 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