Experimental infection with mycoplasmas isolated from ovine pneumonic lungs

Abstract: Five different species of mycoplasma isolated from pneumonic lungs of sheep were inoculated endobroncheally into sheep in an attempt to study their pathogenicity.
M. mycoides subsp.mycoides killed one of two lambs in less than three weeks with the picture of fibrinous pneumonia and the organism was reisolated from infected and control lambs.
M. mycoides subsp. capri could not produce any clinical disease in sheep nor was reisolated from their lungs.
M. ovipneumoniae produced proliferatve interstitial pneumonia in inoculated lambs , however, the organism was not recovered from the lungs.
M. agalactiae subsp. agalactiae produced pneumonic lesions in lambs with positive reisolation of the organism from many sites.
M. arginini was unable to produce clinical disease in lambs and it could not be reisolated from their respiratory tracts.
Publication year 1981
Pages 93-98
Availability location مكتبة معهد بحوث صحة الحيوان
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City القاهرة
serial title مجلة الجمعية الطبية البيطرية - مؤتمر الطب البيطرى العربى الخامس عشر
Department Mycoplasma
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Animal diseases
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Isolation. Mycoplasma. Pneumonia. Sheep.
Proposed Agrovoc ovines;
Publication Type Journal
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