Some observations on natural transmission of ovine brucellosis

Authors: McFarlane D, Hartley WJ, Jebson JL
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp 5-10, Mar 1955
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant, Sheep
Subject Terms: Bacterial, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Disease transmission, Epidemiology, Notifiable organisms/exotic disease, Reproduction, Reproduction - female, Reproduction - male, Zoonosis, Public health
Article class: Scientific Article
Abstract:

The observations of Crawford (1949) in the Gisborne district of N.Z. have shown that pathological lesions of the testes and epididymes were encountered in 10 per cent. of a large number of rams examined by scrotal palpation. From rams forwarded to Wallaceville, McFarlane et al. (1952b) isolated the causal organism both from affected genitalia and from semen. A morphologically similar organism was demonstrated in diseased foetal membranes of ewes by McFarlane et al. (1952a). Buddie and Boyes (1953) were able to establish the identity of the organism from rams and ewes as a possible mutant of Brucella melitensis.


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