Journal article

Publication year: 2007

Pages: 389-393

Journal: Avian Pathology

Volume number: 36

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0307-9457

eISSN: 1465-3338

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03079450701589126

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
Mycoplasma lipofaciens strain ML64, isolated from an egg of a northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), has been found to be pathogenic for chicken embryos causing mortality during the first 2 weeks of incubation. The same strain was inoculated in turkey embryos to evaluate its pathogenicity and its ability to be transmitted laterally in the hatchery. The strain was found to be pathogenic for turkey embryos, causing a high mortality (88.9%) during late incubation as well as haemorrhages of the legs, dwarfing, curled toes and a severe, multifocal, purulent to necrotizing bronchopneumonia. In addition, lateral transmission between turkey poults hatched from infected eggs and poults from non-infected controls was observed in the incubator.

Harvard Citation style: Lierz, M., Deppenmeier, S., Gruber, A., Brokat, S. and Hafez, H. (2007) Pathogenicity of Mycoplasma lipofaciens strain ML64 for turkey embryos, Avian Pathology, 36(5), pp. 389-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/03079450701589126

APA Citation style: Lierz, M., Deppenmeier, S., Gruber, A., Brokat, S., & Hafez, H. (2007). Pathogenicity of Mycoplasma lipofaciens strain ML64 for turkey embryos. Avian Pathology. 36(5), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/03079450701589126