title: Erysipelas in quail and suspected erysipeloid in processing plant employees.
abstract: Erysipelas was diagnosed in two commercial breeder flocks of Coturnix quail and was characterized clinically by sudden mortality. At necropsy, lesions comprised generalized congestion, hemorrhages in the thigh and breast muscles, swelling of liver, spleen, and kidney, and dark red edematous lungs. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was cultured from visceral organs of affected birds. Medication with penicillin in the drinking water controlled the mortality. A possible source of infection was fish raised on the premises. Seven people at the quail processing plant developed localized inflammation of the fingers, which responded when antibiotic therapy for erysipeloid was initiated.
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi 39762, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mutalib
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Keirs
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Austin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003370:Coturnix; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D004886:Erysipelas / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D004888:Erysipelothrix / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006470:Hemorrhage; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D010400:Penicillin G / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011201:Poultry Diseases; D013154:Spleen / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D010400:Penicillin G