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Persistence of Mycoplasma synoviae in hens after two enrofloxacin treatments and detection of mutations in the parC gene.
Veterinary research - 1 Jan 2000
Le Carrou Jérôme, Reinhardt Anita K, Kempf Isabelle, Gautier-Bouchardon Anne V
Abstract excerpt
The ability of Mycoplasma synoviae, an avian pathogen, to persist despite fluoroquinolone treatments was investigated in hens. Groups of Mycoplasma-free hens were experimentally infected with the M. synoviae 317 strain and treated twice with enrofloxacin at the therapeutic dose. The results show that the two treatments did not have any influence on this strain of M. synoviae recovery from tracheal swabs....
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