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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 29056 |
| CIS number |
78-780 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0003-0805 - American Review of Respiratory Disease |
| Year |
1977 |
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| Author(s) |
Meissner G., Anz W. |
| Title |
Sources of Mycobacterium avium complex infection resulting in human diseases. |
| Bibliographic information |
Dec. 1977, Vol.116, No.6, p.1057-1064. 30 ref. |
| Abstract |
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.). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
pathogenic bacteria; poultry farming; infectious diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; bird breeders lung; serological reactions; respiratory diseases; long-term study; Germany (Federal Republic of) |
| Document type |
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| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Livestock rearing
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