Experimental infection of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) with five Mycobacterium species

Avian Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-64

  Ledwón, Aleksandra ^a   Szeleszczuk, Piotr ^a   Zwolska, Zofia ^b   Augustynowicz Kopeć, Ewa ^b   Sapierzyński, Rafal ^a   Kozak, Marcin ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PARAKEET; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ANIMALS; MELOPSITTACUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; TUBERCULOSIS, AVIAN; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

AVES; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM SUBSP. FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS SUBSP. TUBERCULOSIS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 38349019630     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450701802255     Document Type: Article

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