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  • Title: Naturally occurring CAR bacillus infection in a laboratory rat colony and epizootiological observations.
    Author: Itoh T, Kohyama K, Takakura A, Takenouchi T, Kagiyama N.
    Journal: Jikken Dobutsu; 1987 Oct; 36(4):387-93. PubMed ID: 3436371.
    Abstract:
    An epizootic of chronic respiratory disease was found in a rat colony. Lungs of the symptomatic rats showed histopathologically severe peribronchial lymphoid cuffing. Filamentous bacteria were detected on the border of the tracheal and bronchial epithelium by light and electron microscopy. These bacteria did not grown on artificial media but propagated in embryonated chicken eggs. The disease was thus diagnosed as cilia-associated respiratory (CAR) bacillus infection. Epizootiological observations of the natural and experimentally induced cases revealed that the disease was highly contagious, slowly progressive and intractable. Contact infection may play a major role in the transmission of this disease.
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