SPLENIC GRANULOMAS IN BROILER-CHICKENS PRODUCED EXPERIMENTALLY BY INOCULATION WITH EUBACTERIUM-TORTUOSUM

被引：3

作者：

HAFNER, S

HARMON, BG

THAYER, SG

HALL, SM

机构：

[1] UNIV GEORGIA, COLL VET MED, POULTRY DIS RES CTR, DEPT AVIAN MED, ATHENS, GA 30602 USA

[2] USDA, FOOD SAFETY & INSEPCT SERV, WESTERN LAB, ALAMEDA, CA 94501 USA

[3] UNIV GEORGIA, COLL VET MED, POULTRY DIS RES CTR, DEPT VET PATHOL, ATHENS, GA 30602 USA

来源：

AVIAN DISEASES | 1994年 / 38卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.2307/1592085

中图分类号：

S85 [动物医学（兽医学）];

学科分类号：

0906 ;

摘要：

Eubacterium tortuosum, a gram-positive anaerobic filamentous bacillus, was isolated from splenic and hepatic granulomas of a 56-day-old slaughtered chicken. This isolate was injected intravenously into two groups of 2-week-old broiler chickens, which were necropsied 19 days later. Five of 15 chickens injected with 5 x 10(6) colony-forming units of a 48-hour culture of E. tortuosum developed splenic granulomas typical of those seen in chickens at slaughter. No lesions were observed in chickens given 5 x 10(5) colony-forming units of E. tortuosum or in control chickens receiving phosphate-buffered saline solution. Attempts to reisolate E. tortuosum from experimentally infected chickens were unsuccessful; however, typical filamentous organisms were observed in splenic granulomas of all five affected chickens.

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