Research Article

Experimental Aerosol Inoculation and Investigation of Potential Lateral Transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Figure 2

Photomicrograph of a pulmonary tubercle obtained from the opossum described in Figure 1 (40x magnification). Higher magnification of a representative M. bovis inoculated opossums characterized by marked, multifocal, caseogranulomatous pneumonia with variable amounts of central mineralization (*).
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