Observations on the involvement of wildlife in an epornitic of chlamydiosis in domestic turkeys.

摘要: In an investigation of potential wildlife reservoirs Chlamydia psittaci at the site acute, highly fatal epornitic chlamydiosis in domestic turkeys Texas, various species wild birds and rodents were captured tested for chlamydial serum antibodies chlamydiae their tissues. Thirteen (65%) 20 blackbirds (Agelaius sp), 4 (44%) 9 killdeer (Oxyechus vociferus), 3 (27%) 11 sparrows (Passer sp) 1 mourning doves (Zenaidura macroura) seropositive, but not isolated from Two rats (2 cotton rats, Sigmodon hispidus, roof cat, Rattus rattus) 7 gophers (Citellus ground squirrel (Tamias opossum (Didelphis virginiana), a cat (Felis domesticus) seronegative; however, recovered livers spleens both which had been observed scavenging carcasses dead chlamydiosis. Cultures these isolants inoculated experimentally into produced lesions that indistinguishable those caused by strain originally diseases on premises. Nine 50 goats quartered near diseased tested, all seropositive.