Department of Veterinary Pathology attached to the Directorate of Clinics, College of Veterinary Science Assam Agricultural University Khanapara, Guwahati-781 022.
* Director of Clinics, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Guwahati-781 022.
A total of 53 dead-in-shell embryos were collected in the present investigation of which 49 yielded different bacterial isolates in following order of frequency: E. coli (52–83%), Staph. aureus (13.20%), Bacillus spp. (9.4%), S. enteritidis (7.54%), Citrobacter spp. (5.66%) and Klebsiella spp (3.77%), Amongst the fungal isolates only Aspergillus niger (7.54%) was isolated.
Pigeon, dead-in-shell embryos, bacterial and fungal isolates
