(Antônio Henrique Garcia, 1998-06) Souza, Cleusely Matias de; Mesquita, Albenones José de; Souza, Lilian de
ln this present study 103 samples of pigs from Uberlândia area were submitted to bacteriological analyses. 1'issnes with abscess were present in 12 sarnples; lymphonodes without lesions in 20 samples and 71 of !hem were lymphonodes with lesions "tuberculosis-like infection". The bacteriological analyses ofthe 103 sarnples have permitted lhe isolation of 12 mycobacterias strains, ali of !hem from lhe 71 lymphonodes with lesions. The mycobacterias strains were identified as belonging to Mycobacterium avium-intracel/ulare Complex (MAi).