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Title: RELATIONSHIP OF CHLAMYDIA PSITTACI STRAINS AND HOST TO DISEASE SYNDROME - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INT. SYMPOS. ON INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS & PNEUMOVIRUS INFECTIONS IN POULTRY, 6/98, GERMANY (ORAL PRESENTATION)

Author
item Andersen, Arthur

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/15/1998
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

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Technical Abstract: The chlamydial strains that infect a given host are important to know for disease prognosis, disease control, and epidemiology. The microimmuno- fluorescence test (MIFT) was used with a panel of six serovar-specific monoclonal antibodies to serotype 148 chlamydial isolates from different species of birds. The isolates were obtained from birds submitted to diagnostic laboratories or during investigation of outbreaks. It was foun that 97% of isolates from psittacine birds were of serovar A, 80% of isolates from Columbiformes were of serovar B, and 56% of isolates from Galliformes were of serovar D. A high rate of isolates were all from ratites that died during a 2-year period in the southwestern United States. The number of isolates from other birds was too low to detect a pattern. The results show that specific chlamydial strains are usually associated with certain types of birds and that some serovars may be unusually virulent fro certain species of birds.