pseudotuberculosis

pseu·do·tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (sd-t-bûrky-lss)

n.

Any of several diseases characterized by granulomas that resemble tubercular nodules but that are not caused by the tubercle bacillus.

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pseudotuberculosis

resembles tuberculosis. See also yersiniosis.

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avian pseudotuberculosis

a contagious disease of birds, both domestic and wild, caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and characterized by an initial, brief septicemia, followed by a bacteremic phase in which there is the development of multiple abscesses and granulomas as in avian tuberculosis.

The disease causes major epornithics in populations of canaries, finches, cockatoos, parakeets. Called also canary cholera.

bovine pseudotuberculosis

see johne's disease.