1. Fatal pneumonia of bighorn sheep following association with domestic sheep.
- Author
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Foreyt WJ and Jessup DA
- Subjects
- Animals, Bronchopneumonia epidemiology, Bronchopneumonia etiology, California, Corynebacterium Infections transmission, Corynebacterium pyogenes, Female, Male, Pasteurella Infections transmission, Pleurisy etiology, Pleurisy veterinary, Sheep, Stress, Physiological veterinary, Washington, Animal Population Groups microbiology, Animals, Domestic microbiology, Animals, Wild microbiology, Bronchopneumonia veterinary, Corynebacterium Infections veterinary, Disease Outbreaks veterinary, Pasteurella Infections veterinary, Sheep Diseases transmission
- Abstract
During 1979-1980 acute fibrinopurulent bronchopneumonia resulted in high mortality or total loss of herds of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in California and Washington. Contact with domestic sheep occurred shortly before the onset of disease in each case. Circumstantial evidence indicated that the apparently healthy domestic sheep transmitted pathogenic bacteria to the bighorns, resulting in mortality. Pasteurella multocida and Corynebacterium pyogenes were isolated from pulmonary tissue of dead bighorns. The presence of domestic sheep may have been an important stress which initiated or compounded the disease.
- Published
- 1982
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