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1 January 1988 EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF FIVE SPECIES OF RAPTORS AND OF HOODED CROWS WITH FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS BIOVAR PALAEARCTICA
Torsten Mörner, Roland Mattsson
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Abstract

Sixteen raptors and three hooded crows were infected experimentally with Francisella tularensis biovar palaearctica. The birds were infected parenterally or per os. One goshawk, one sparrow hawk and one hooded crow died during the experimental period, and the remaining 16 birds were killed 14–77 days after the first infection. Francisella tularensis was not isolated from any bird. Antibody levels against F. tularensis measured in nine birds varied from 0 to 1:1,280. In one goshawk with a titer of 1:1,280, positive fluorescent antibody reactions against F. tularensis were seen in the liver and spleen. These results are similar to those found by other authors indicating that raptors and corvids are normally resistant to infections with F. tularensis.

Mörner and Mattsson: EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF FIVE SPECIES OF RAPTORS AND OF HOODED CROWS WITH FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS BIOVAR PALAEARCTICA
Torsten Mörner and Roland Mattsson "EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF FIVE SPECIES OF RAPTORS AND OF HOODED CROWS WITH FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS BIOVAR PALAEARCTICA," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 24(1), 15-21, (1 January 1988). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-24.1.15
Received: 3 February 1987; Published: 1 January 1988
KEYWORDS
Accipiter spp.
Buteo spp.
buzzards
Corvus corone cornix
crows
experimental infection
fluorescent antibody test
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