Response of cattle to inoculation with atypical mycobacteria of bovine origin
Ten strains of atypical mycobacteria originally isolated from cattle were inoculated into cattle. Each strain was injected subcutaneously into one animal and into a mesenteric lymph node of another. Four weeks and ten weeks after inoculation the cattle were tuberculin tested with bovine PPD, avian PPD and the appropriate homologous PPD. Three strains produced a significant level of sensitivity to bovine PPD at the 4-week test but by the 10-week test no animal gave a significant response. The sensitivity to all tuberculins was less at the 10 weeks test than at the 4 week test. At both tests the response to avian PPD was equal to or exceeded that to bovine PPD. Of 4 strains originally from cattle sensitive to mammalian tuberculin only 2 produced sensitivity of bovine PPD in this experiment. Cultural isolation of mycobacteria from necropsy material was correlated neither with sensitivity to bovine PPD nor with the presence of lesions
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| Subjects: | INOCULACION, MYCOBACTERIUM, BACTERIOSIS, PATOGENICIDAD, TUBERCULINA, PRUEBA TUBERCULINICA, DERIVADO PROTEICO PURIFICADO, RESPUESTA INMUNOLOGICA, GANADO BOVINO, AUSTRALIA, |
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