Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2004)

Bovine Necrotic Vulvovaginitis Associated with Porphyromonas levii

  • Daniel Elad,
  • Orly Friedgut,
  • Nir Alpert,
  • Yehuda Stram,
  • Dan Lahav,
  • Doron Tiomkin,
  • Miriam Avramson,
  • Kalia Grinberg,
  • Michael Bernstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1003.020592
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 505 – 507

Abstract

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An outbreak of bovine necrotic vulvovaginitis associated with Porphyromonas levii, an emerging animal and human pathogen, affected 32 cows on a dairy farm in the northeast of Israel. Five animals had to be culled. This report appears to be the first that associates P. levii with bovine necrotic vulvovagnitis.

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