title: Ureaplasmas in the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): transmission and elimination.
abstract: All adult marmosets tested had ureaplasmas in their throats but not in the lower respiratory tract, and rarely in the genital tract. Ureaplasmas persisted in the throat of a marmoset separated from the colony for 44 days. They could not be recovered from the animals for at least nine weeks after a course of minocycline. Airborne reinfection did not occur when these animals were surrounded by, but separate from, infected marmosets. It occurred when the minocycline-treated animals were caged with the infected marmosets or were inoculated. The genital tract was more difficult to infect than the oropharynx.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002143:Callitrichinae / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D000882:Haplorhini; D008297:Male; D008911:Minocycline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D010614:Pharynx / Q000382:microbiology; D014509:Ureaplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D008911:Minocycline