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ID (ISN) del documento29056
Número CIS 78-780
ISSN - Título de la serie 0003-0805 - American Review of Respiratory Disease
Año 1977
Número de serie
Autor(es) Meissner G., Anz W.
Título Sources of Mycobacterium avium complex infection resulting in human diseases.
Información bibliográfica Dec. 1977, Vol.116, No.6, p.1057-1064. 30 ref.
Resumen This article presents a literature survey of this question and analyses a 20-year ongoing study in the Fed.Rep. of Germany to elucidate the ecologic and epidemiologic characteristics of human disease due to organisms in the Mycobacterium avium complex. Organisms included in the investigation were cultured from man, from domestic and wild animals and fowl, and from a variety of environmental sources. In addition to the usual taxonomic studies of these bacilli, infrasubspecific typing by seroagglutination enabled identification of 3 distinct serogroups: the classical Mycobacterium avium strains, an intermediate group, and less frequently encountered organisms. Analysis of the number of strains in each of the 3 serogroups, derived from man, animals, and the environment, respectively, enabled the authors to draw some conclusions regarding reservoirs and sources of human infection with these agents (cattle, pigs, domestic fowl, plants and grasses used for animal food and bedding, insects under the bark of felled trees, sawdust for animal bedding, etc.).
Descriptores (primarios) bacterias patógenas; cría de pollos; enfermedades infecciosas
Descriptores (secundarios) revisión bibliográfica; pulmón de los pajareros; reacciones serológicas; enfermedades respiratorias; observación de larga duración; Alemania (República Federal de)
Tipo de documento -
Tema(s) Patología profesional
Broad subject area(s)
Navegación por categoria(s) Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Livestock rearing