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A bacteriological study of endemic tuberculosis in birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. B. Schaefer ,
J. V. Beer ,
N. A. Wood ,
E. Boughton ,
P. A. Jenkins  and
J. Marks
W. B. Schaefer
Affiliation:
Denver, Colorado
J. V. Beer
Affiliation:
Wildfowl Trust, Silmbridge
N. A. Wood
Affiliation:
Wildfowl Trust, Silmbridge
E. Boughton
Affiliation:
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge
P. A. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Cardiff
J. Marks
Affiliation:
Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Cardiff
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Typing of Mycobacterium avium strains obtained in a study of endemic tuberculosis in a Wildfowl Reserve permitted the recognition of two separate infected groups. The main infection was in Anatidae and was due to M. avium, type 1; the other was in chickens used for incubation and brooding and the predominance in it of type 2 agreed with normal experience of birds, pigs and cattle in Britain. Many of the strains isolated from the Anatidae were aberrant and methods used to investigate these are described; two of the strains may belong to a new type. Birds which died from other causes, usually trauma, often had subclinical tuberculosis and 5% of the samples of mud and soil examined yielded M. avium.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , September 1973 , pp. 549 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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