Studies on Listeriosis In Rabbits

1- III studying rabbit listeriosis; 70 cases representA;ng 14 .flocks suspected clinicelly to suffer from thed i se aee wer-e subjected to pos t-saor-t e.n as well as bac- teriological exa~inations. 2- Only 14 isolates out 01’ the 70 rabbits e xa.n i.ne d isola-te c. and on the ir b Loc he.a Lcr.L Lde n t l I’Lca t i.on prove d tobe listeria monocyt oge ne oJ- 0e1.’0 l ogLc a1exan Lnation of these 14 lis t e rLo illonocyto-genes strains revealed that only 4 strains we re belong-in6 to po Lyvn Len t 1-4 0 and H antisera of Be Hr-Lng werkin::; ti tu te-Viest Ge ruiariy ,4- Study of the bioLogcaIchar-acerofa represnting str8in of the isolated listeria monocytoeenes provedit’s pa thoi..;enici ty.5- Tile expe r-Lne n ta L infection of listeria monocytoge ne ain susceptible r-a bb i t s vie both oral an d intera-perito- ne~l routes of inoculation as undertaken. The incuba-tion period, the clinic81 signs as well as the post-mortem lesions were recorded6- 11h sera Lo g Lc a 1 Dud haena to Log i.c n L p i,c t ure of experi- Jentally infected rabbits ~ere detennined.