title: Systemic mycobacteriosis in an aborted thoroughbred fetus in Japan.
abstract: A male Thoroughbred fetus was aborted on day 251 of pregnancy. Gross and histological examinations detected systemic granulomatous lesions in many superficial and visceral lymph nodes and organs including the liver, tonsils, lungs, thymus, spleen, right thyroid gland and gastrointestinal tract, and suppurative placentitis, pyogranulomatous amnionitis and intralesional acid-fast bacilli were also detected. An examination of the DNA base sequence of the β subunit of RNA polymerase demonstrated that Mycobacterium avium strain 104 had infected several organs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of equine fetal mycobacterial infection in Japan.
authors: Department of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069-8501, Japan.
authors: Yuto
authors: Y
authors: Sano
authors: Kazuya
authors: K
authors: Matsuda
authors: Keisuke
authors: K
authors: Osaki
authors: Taku
authors: T
authors: Miyasho
authors: Tomonori
authors: T
authors: Tsuda
authors: Hiroyuki
authors: H
authors: Taniyama
mesh_terms: D037881:Aborted Fetus / Q000382:microbiology*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D006736:Horses; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009162:Mycobacterium avium / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D011247:Pregnancy; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000662:veterinary
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers
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