ANTIBODIES TO Clostridium botulinum TOXINS IN FREE-LIVING BIRDS AND MAMMALS

IWAO OHISHI; GENJI SAKAGUCHI; HANS RIEMANN; DARRELL BEHYMER; BENGT HURVELL

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-15.1.3

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1 January 1979 ANTIBODIES TO Clostridium botulinum TOXINS IN FREE-LIVING BIRDS AND MAMMALS

IWAO OHISHI, GENJI SAKAGUCHI, HANS RIEMANN, DARRELL BEHYMER, BENGT HURVELL

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 15(1):3-9 (1979). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-15.1.3

Abstract

Naturally-occuring antibodies against Clostridium botulinum toxins were found in Cathartes aura (turkey vultures), Canis latrans (coyotes) and Corvus brachyrhynchos (crows) by the passive hemagglutination (PHA) test and verified by the serum neutralization (SN) test. The prevalence of IHA antibodies was 18 of 20 vultures (90%), 5 of 12 crows (42%) and 25 of 110 coyotes (23%). Vultures and coyotes were seropositive by the PHA test against A, B, C, D and F toxins. The highest antibody titer 1:8192 was in vulture serum against type C. In descending order, the highest antibody levels were against type C, D, F, E, A and B toxins.

OHISHI, SAKAGUCHI, RIEMANN, BEHYMER, and HURVELL: ANTIBODIES TO Clostridium botulinum TOXINS IN FREE-LIVING BIRDS AND MAMMALS

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IWAO OHISHI, GENJI SAKAGUCHI, HANS RIEMANN, DARRELL BEHYMER, and BENGT HURVELL "ANTIBODIES TO Clostridium botulinum TOXINS IN FREE-LIVING BIRDS AND MAMMALS," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 15(1), 3-9, (1 January 1979). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-15.1.3

Received: 6 April 1978; Published: 1 January 1979

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