Mj. Margolis et al., RESULTS STAINING TO CONFIRM A DIAGNOSIS OF SWINE MYCOBACTERIOSIS MADEON THE BASIS OF GROSS EXAMINATION, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 204(10), 1994, pp. 1571-1572
Overall, 74% of the tissue specimens that meal inspectors at a large P
ennsylvania packing plant identified as lesions oi swine mycobacterios
is yielded Mycobacterium avium on bacteriologic culture. Histopatholog
ic lesions compatible with mycobacteriosis were identified in 83% of t
he specimens; only 12% of the specimens had acid-fast staining organis
ms.