A seroepidemiological investigation of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in sheep flocks in southern Norway |
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| Authors: | J K Kuria G Holstad |
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| Institution: | 113.Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine, P. O. Box 8146, Oslo Dep., N-0033 Oslo 1, Norway ;213.Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Abstract: | Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis causes caseous lymphadenitis, a disease primarily affecting sheep and goats which occurs as a chronic infection characterized by suppurative lymphadenitis (Lovell 1959, Marsh 1965, Jubb & Kennedy 1970, Ayers 1977, Addo & Eid 1978). The disease has an insidious nature and a high prevalence, resulting in large economic losses due to condemnation of carcasses and organs at slaughter (Turner 1973). |
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