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1 April 2004 The Presence of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide–Independent Haemophilus paragallinarum in México
A. J. García, E. Angulo, P. J. Blackall, A. M. Ortiz
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Abstract

Two isolates of Haemophilus paragallinarum were obtained from a layer chicken in México. The isolates were confirmed as H. paragallinarum by polymerase chain reaction and conventional biochemical identification. The isolates were nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) independent—growing on blood agar without the need of a nurse colony as well as on a complex medium that lacked both NAD and chicken serum. Both isolates were pathogenic, causing the typical clinical signs of infectious coryza in susceptible chickens. One isolate was Page serovar B/Kume serovar B-1 and the other isolate was Page serovar C/Kume serovar C-2. The isolates were associated with a field outbreak that involved an egg drop of 20% over a 3-wk period and a doubling of weekly mortality (from 0.1% to 0.2%). This is the first report of NAD-independent H. paragallinarum outside South Africa and is the first time that NAD-independent H. paragallinarum of serovar B has been reported.

A. J. García, E. Angulo, P. J. Blackall, and A. M. Ortiz "The Presence of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide–Independent Haemophilus paragallinarum in México," Avian Diseases 48(2), 425-429, (1 April 2004). https://doi.org/10.1637/7104
Received: 4 September 2003; Published: 1 April 2004
KEYWORDS
H. paragallinarum
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
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