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Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, vol.15, no.3, pp.477-479, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
In this report, the case of avian tuberculosis was presented in a 3 year-old female pigeon (Columba livia) was submitted for necropsy to the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University. There were formations of grey-yellowish nodules with distinct borderlines, in different numbers and diameters on the surfaces of spleen, liver and lung in microscopy. Histopathologic examinations of the sections confirmed lesions being the nodules of tuberculosis. Indeed, a large number of tuberculosis bacilli were observed on the sections stained by Ziehl-Neelsen. The case (tuberculosis in a pigeon) described herein was considered interesting as there is a possible risk for cross-contamination of other animals being kept under the same cage conditions.