Date of Award:

5-1-1954

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Biology

Department name when degree awarded

Bacteriology and Public Health

Committee Chair(s)

Garth A. james

Committee

Garth A. James

Committee

Reed S. Roberts

Abstract

For the last fifteen years, the turkey growers throughout the United States have suffered a great financial loss from the turkey disease synovitis. This disease, commonly called weak leg or turkey arthritis, is a generalized staphylococcal infection. The etiological agent of this infection is Micrococcus pyogenes var. aureus.

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