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  • Title: Meningoencephalitis in commercial meat turkeys associated with Mycoplasma gallisepticum.
    Author: Chin RP, Daft BM, Meteyer CU, Yamamoto R.
    Journal: Avian Dis; 1991; 35(4):986-93. PubMed ID: 1786029.
    Abstract:
    Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) infection was diagnosed in three different flocks of 12-to-16-week-old commercial meat turkeys displaying torticollis and/or opisthotonos. MG was isolated from the brain, air sacs, trachea, and sinus of one bird with neurological signs. Histological examination of brains in all three cases revealed moderate-to-severe encephalitis with lymphoplasmacytic cuffing of vessels, fibrinoid vasculitis, focal parenchymal necrosis, and meningitis. Birds with neurological signs were seropositive for MG by the serum-plate agglutination and hemagglutination-inhibition tests. The encephalitic form of MG has been described previously but is rarely mentioned in the current literature.
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