Naturally occurring Mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection in a laboratory mouse colony.
A contamination with Mycobacterium scrofulaceum was experienced in a colony of BALB/c-nu/nu mice. The contamination was noticed after introduction of C57BL/6 and C57BL/6. Lyt l. 1 strains into facilities that kept the colony. M. scrofulaceum seemed to be spread by oral infestation and cross-contamination of fecal excretions during handling of the mice. The organisms were shed continually or intermittently into feces of weaned nu/+ and nu/nu mice of BALB/c background, and were isolated from the mesenteric lymph nodes and spleen of some of the mice. Some of the bacillus-carrying mice developed serum antibody to M. scrofulaceum of IgG and IgA classes and gave a low degree of hypersensitivity to PPD from M. tuberculosis.
Ueda
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Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, Japan.
Yamamoto
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S
Ohtsuka
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Machii
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K
Yamazaki
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Saito
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H
D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000096:biosynthesis; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery; D051379:Mice / Q000382:microbiology*; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D015359:Mycobacterium scrofulaceum / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G