title: Microbiological and serological studies on caprine pneumonias in Oman.
abstract: Eight of 10 typical cases of contagious caprine pleuro-pneumonia in Oman yielded strain F38-like mycoplasmas from the lungs in high titre, but no other mycoplasmas: both negative animals had been treated with tylosin shortly before death. Among 21 other lungs examined three of six cases of acute pneumonia yielded Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae; one also yielded M capricolum. M ovipneumoniae was also isolated from all eight cases of chronic pneumonia sampled from an abattoir, and from the lungs of three animals which died without overt signs of pneumonia. A single isolate of M arginini and three of unidentified mycoplasmas were also obtained from goats with and without pneumonia. Various bacterial species were isolated, none of which predominated. Antibodies to M mycoides subspecies capri (M m capri) and strain F38 were detected in sera from eight different sources. Assuming titres of 1 in 40 or more as positive in the indirect haemagglutination test used, 29 per cent of 422 serum samples had antibodies to M m capri alone, 2.6 per cent to strain F38 alone and 3.6 per cent to both organisms. These results confirm the presence of F38-like mycoplasmas in Oman, and indicate also widespread infection with M m capri. The role of the latter in caprine pneumonias in Oman requires elucidation.
authors.affiliation: Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D006041:Goats / Q000382:microbiology*; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009176:Mycoplasma mycoides / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009850:Oman; D011002:Pleuropneumonia, Contagious / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial