COXIELLOSIS IN DOMESTIC AND WILD BIRDS FROM JAPAN

@inproceedings{To1998COXIELLOSISID,
  title={COXIELLOSIS IN DOMESTIC AND WILD BIRDS FROM JAPAN},
  author={Ho To and R Sakai and Kazutoshi Shirota and C Kano and Satomi Abe and T Sugimoto and K Takehara and Çhiharu Morita and Ikuo Takashima and Tomoko Maruyama and T. Yamaguchi and Hideto Fukushi and Katsuya Hirai},
  booktitle={Journal of Wildlife Diseases},
  year={1998}
}
  • H. ToR. Sakai K. Hirai
  • Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases 1 April 1998
  • Biology, Environmental Science
Serological evidence of infection with Coxiella burnetii was found in 41 (2%) of 1,951 domestic birds and in 167 (19%) of 863 wild birds from 17 and 5 prefectures in Japan, respectively, by microagglutination (MA) test. The bacteriological evidence of the infection was found in 17 (41%) of 41 domestic birds and 37 (22%) of 167 wild birds by the nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In addition, C. burnetii was isolated from five each of serum, spleen and fecal specimens from five jungle crows… 
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