ISOLATION OF CONDITIONALLY PATHOGENIC MYCOBACTERIA FROM THE ENVIRONMENT OF ONE PIG FARM AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTIVE MEASURES BETWEEN 1997 AND 2003

Between 1997 and 2003, in one herd of breeding pigs with 90 sows and two boars, positive and dubious responses to avian tuberculin were detected in 4 and 72 pigs, respectively.Pigs were examined using the agglutination test for the presence of serum antibodies against corpuscular antigens prepared from various Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) memb

Antonis A Manolis,1 Theodora A Manolis,2 Helen Melita,3 Antonis S Manolis4 1Patras University School of Medicine, Patras, Greece; 2Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece; 3Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece; 4Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, GreeceCorrespondence: Antonis S ManolisThird Department of Cardiology, Ippokrateio Hosp