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Prevalence of trichomonads in the cloaca of wild wetland birds in the Netherlands
31 Aug 2021
Abstract excerpt
Severe granulomatosis in productive layer chickens due to Tetratrichomonas gallinarum strain 13/16632 infection occurred in 2013 and 2017 on farms situated in a wetland area in the Netherlands. We hypothesized that wetland birds could be the source of the infection. Therefore, a prevalence study on trichomonads was performed by analysing cloaca swabs of 526 birds belonging to 13 species of wetland birds. The...
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