- Tetratrichomonas gallinarum
- a species found in the lower digestive tract of chickens, turkeys, and other domestic birds in which it sometimes causes a fatal form of avian trichomoniasis.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Tetratrichomonas gallinarum
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