Medical Dictionary

avian tuberculosis

noun

Medical Definition of AVIAN TUBERCULOSIS

:  tuberculosis of birds usually caused by a bacterium of the genus Mycobacterium (M. avium); also :  infection of mammals (as swine) by the same bacterium

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