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INVESTIGATIONS into an unusually high abortion rate among dairy cattle in Hong Kong have shown that a number of abortions were associated with fungal infections. In one such infection, the fungus has been shown to be Syncephalastrum racemosum (Cohn) Schroet. This is an addition to the list of fungi which have been implicated in bovine mycotic abortion, and also increases further the number of phycomycete fungi known to be abortifacients1,2.
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Chang Yung, M.Sc. thesis, Univ. Hong Kong, 1963.
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TURNER, P. Syncephalastrum associated with Bovine Mycotic Abortion. Nature 204, 399 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204399a0
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