Related Experiment Videos
Isolation of Mycobacterium avium from waterfowl with polycystic livers
1National Wildlife Health Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53711.
Avian Diseases
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
An unusual gross appearance of avian tuberculosis, where fluid-filled thin-walled cysts are produced and grossly apparent in preference to granulomas, is presented. Histopathology confirmed the granulomatous nature of the lesions and the presence of intracellular acid-fast organisms. Mycobacterium avium complex was cultured from affected organs. The unusual gross presentation in these cases indicates the need to consider tuberculosis in the differential of cystic diseases of avian livers.