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Avian mycobacteriosis in free-living raptors in Majorca Island, Spain.
Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A - 1 Feb 2010
Millán Javier, Negre Nieves, Castellanos Elena, de Juan Lucía, Mateos Ana, Parpal Lluis, Aranaz Alicia
Abstract excerpt
Avian mycobacteriosis is a chronic, infectious disease caused by different species of mycobacteria, usually belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex. From 2004 to 2007, 589 raptors brought dead or sick to a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) were necropsied. The birds belonged to 12 different species, chiefly common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) (n=297), scops owl (Otus scops)...
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