Bovine Vibriosis in Papua and New Guinea.

Abstract

As long ago as 1913, McFadyean and Stockman reported the isolation of a spirillum from cases of abortion in sheep and cattle in England. In 1919, American workers Smith and Taylor named a similar organism Vibrio fetus. Vibrio fetus has since been shown to be a cause of abortion and infertility in cattle and sheep in many parts of the world (Lawson 1959).