Volume 3, Number 1—March 1997

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Mycoplasmal Conjunctivitis in Wild Songbirds: The Spread of a New Contagious Disease in a Mobile Host Population

John R. Fischer*, David E. Stallknecht*, M. Page Luttrell*, Andre A. Dhondt†, and Kathryn A. Converse‡

Author affiliations: *Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; †Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA; ‡National Wildlife Health Center, National Biological Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Figure. Case distribution of house finches with conjunctivitis, October 1994-June 1996.

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