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Mycoplasma of the ‘N’ strain are frequently isolated from turkey poults affected with airsacculitis but free of Mycoplasma gallisepticum1. Research on the ‘N’ strain has been impeded by the presence of a high proportion of turkey poults with airsacculitis in all breeding flocks examined1,2,4,5, by the difficulty of culturing and identifying the Mycoplasma strains, and by the lack of a practical serologic test. This communication describes the establishment of a small nucleus of ‘N’-free turkeys from a commercial breeding flock known to carry ‘N’ Mycoplasma. Hens and toms for the production of ‘N’-free poults were selected from the parent flock by serology and culture.
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YAMAMOTO, R., BIGLAND, C. Establishment of a Turkey Flock Free of ‘N’ Strain Mycoplasma. Nature 204, 1003 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041003a0
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