Table 3.
Incidence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) isolation.
| Items | Examined samples Number = 400 (68 sera + 332 samples for bacterial isolation) | Positive |
Negative |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | ||
| SPA test | Serum (68) | 68 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Bacterial isolation | Tracheal swabs (68) | 20 | 29.4 | 48 | 70.6 |
| Lung (68) | 54 | 79.4 | 14 | 20.6 | |
| Trachea bifurcation (68) | 46 | 67.4 | 22 | 32.6 | |
| Air sacs (68) | 49 | 72 | 19 | 28 | |
| Infraorbital sinus aspirates (30) | 25 | 83 | 5 | 17 | |
| Litter samples (30) | 12 | 40 | 18 | 60 | |
| Total | (332) samples used for bacterial isolation | 206 | 62 | 126 | 38 |