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ABORTION of infectious origin in sheep, has been attributed to many organisms. Of the bacterial agents Salmonella abortus ovis and Vibrio fetus appear to be the most common ; of less frequent occurrence are other members of the Salmonella and members of the Brucella, Listerella, Leptospira, Bacteroides and Corynebacterium groups. A virus of the Psittacosis-Lymphogranuloma group has been associated with a large number of flock outbreaks of abortion in Great Britain1 and, more recently, in Germany, France, Hungary and the United States.
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BEVERLEY, J., WATSON, W. Ovine Abortion due to Toxoplasmosis. Nature 184, 2041 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1842041a0
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