ISOLATION OF Bordetella avium IN WHITE LEGHORN HENS IN CUBA: FIRST REPORT

Abstract

The animal bacteriology laboratory of the National Center for Animal and Plant Health has worked on the isolation, identification and characterization of bacteria associated to pathological lesions of avian respiratory tract. Recently, pure cultures of small, smooth, greyish-white convex and non-haemolytic colonies were obtained from paranasal sinuses, trachea and lungs exudates by streaking on blood agar. Clinical samples were taken from a respiratory syndrome outbreak in a layer farm in western part of the country.