Publications

experimental chlamydia psittaci infection of japanese quail.	japanese quail were used for the infection model of avian chlamydiosis. one-day-old japanese quail were highly susceptible to lethal infection by a chlamydia psittaci strain of budgerigar origin upon inoculation via the air sac route with 10(4.1) ffu of the organism, showing an acute and lethal course with chlamydial propagation. in contrast, 7-day-old quail developed resistance to the infection as shown by the lack of lethal effect with the same dose. the resistance of 7-day-old birds was aboli ...	1996	8709861
experimental studies of chlamydiosis in japanese quails.	two-week-old japanese quails were infected intratracheally with six strains of chlamydia psittaci isolated from calf pneumonia, swine pneumonia, goat abortion, sheep abortion, kid enteritis, and calf conjunctivitis, respectively. the japanese quails from infected and control groups were closely observed for clinical symptoms. in order to examine the gross and microscopic lesions, quails in each group were sacrificed at 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 30 days post infection. alterations induced by pneumo ...	1999	10096166