A dead canary from a mixed species zoological garden was presented for diagnostic necropsy. Cachexia with prominent atrophy of pectoral muscles, yellowish brown discoloration of the liver and kidney, dark brown to black intestinal contents and moderate proventricular dilatation with some degree of catarrhal gastritis were the significant macroscopic findings. Parenchymatous organs like the live...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Avian tuberculosis is one of the most important infections affecting most species of birds. Mycobacterium avium can not only infect all species of birds, but also infect some domesticated mammals. The most crucial aspect of control and eradication scheme is identification of infection sources and transmission routs. Molecular techniques such as restriction fragment len...

BACKGROUND Most countries carrying out campaigns of bovine tuberculosis (TB) eradication impose a ban on the use of mycobacterial vaccines in cattle. However, vaccination against paratuberculosis (PTB) in goats is often allowed even when its effect on TB diagnosis has not been fully evaluated. To address this issue, goat kids previously vaccinated against PTB were experimentally infected with T...

BACKGROUND Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) is challenging and might require combining cellular and humoral diagnostic tests. Repeated skin-testing with mycobacterial purified protein derivatives (PPDs) might sensitize or desensitize the subjects to both kinds of diagnostic tools. We evaluated the effect of repeated (every 6 months) comparative tuberculin skin te...

Following discovery of the tubercle bacilli by Professor Koch, three types of the organisms were soon recognized immunologically as separate and distinct entities, i.e., the human, bovine and avian. For several years thereafter, Koch, as well as many other reputable scientists in the field of bacteriology, contended that the host-species in each category would not contract tuberculosis when exp...

From 1992 to mid-1996, a national survey of poultry diseases in Lebanon was conducted. This surveillance included meat breeder, layer breeder, commercial layer and chicken broiler flocks. The history, signs, lesions and laboratory tests of poultry were used in the diagnosis of prevalent poultry diseases. Culture techniques were used to screen for bacterial diseases; serological techniques and, ...

Hastalar ve Metod: Marmara Bölgesi’nde dört şehirde bulunan toplam 10 cezaevindeki tüm hükümlüler çalışmaya alındı. Taramalar Ocak 2006-Ocak 2007 tarihleri arasında yapıldı. Radyolojik taramalar mobil-X ray cihazıyla yapıldı. Tüberküloz şüphesi olan olgulardan bakteriyolojik inceleme amaçlı balgam örneği alındı. Akciğer grafileri birbirinden bağımsız dört hekim tarafından ayrı ayrı değerlendiri...