RECURRENT OUTBREAKS OF A CUTANEOUS FORM OF PASTEURELLA-MULTOCIDA INFECTION IN TURKEYS

Cutaneous infection caused by Pasteurella multocida was diagnosed in a flock of seven thousand 17-to-22-week-old male turkeys. The affected grow-out facility had an annual outbreak of fowl cholera, in which a c utaneous infection ventral and lateral to the tall was the predominant lesion. P. multocida serotypes 1 and 14 were the predominant isolates . The exact source of the infection was not determined.