Other Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, and Chlamydiae

摘要: Tuberculosis (infection with Mycobacterium avium or other species of mycobacteria) occurs sporadically among free-flying waterfowl. It has been reported in individual birds many species; however, the prevalence infection wild waterfowl not determined. Quortrup and Shillinger (1941) diagnosed tuberculosis 0.3% 3000 necropsied western USA. MacNeill Barnard (1978) disease 0.6% 636 British Columbia. Smit et al. (1987) 2.4% 288 found dead Netherlands.