CHARACTERISTICS OF PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA ISOLATED FROM WATERFOWL AND ASSOCIATED AVIAN SPECIES IN CALIFORNIA Author(s): Dwight C. Hirsh, David A. Jessup, Kurt P. Snipes, Tim E. Carpenter, David W. Hird, and Richard H. McCapes Source: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 26(2):204-209. Published By: Wildlife Disease Association DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-26.2.204 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.7589/0090-3558-26.2.204

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Journal

of Wildlife

Diseases,

©

CHARACTERISTICS

OF PASTEURELLA

WATERFOWL

AND

Dwight C. Hirsh,’ Tim E. Carpenter,3 Department

ASSOCIATED

David A. Jessup,2 David W. Hird,3

of Veterinary

Microbiology

Wildlife

26(2), 1990, pp. 204-209 Disease Association 1990

MULTOCIDA

ISOLATED

SPECIES

IN CALIFORNIA

AVIAN

FROM

Kurt P. Snipes,3 and Richard H. McCapes3 and

Immunology,

School

University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA 2 Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife Investigations 1701 Nimbus Road, Suite D, Rancho Cordova, California Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA

of Veterinary

Laboratory, 95670, USA School of Veterinary

Medicine,

Medicine,

multocida isolated from tissues of dead waterfowl and located in northern and central California, from January 1986 through January 1988 are reported. Two hundred ninety five isolates of P. multocida were obtained from 23 avian species. Most of the isolates belonged to the subspecies P. multocida multocida (63%), followed by P. multocida gallicida (37%), and by P. multocida septica (