Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri associated with goat respiratory disease and high flock mortality.
A high mortality outbreak of respiratory mycoplasmosis occurred in goats in Mexico. The clinicopathologic presentation resembled contagious caprine pleuropneumonia caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae. By using a battery of polymerase chain reaction assays, the mycoplasma associated with this outbreak was identified as Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri.
Hernandez
Laura
L
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria, México DF.
Lopez
Jose
J
St-Jacques
Marcel
M
Ontiveros
Lourdes
L
Acosta
Jorge
J
Handel
Katherine
K
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006041:Goats; D009176:Mycoplasma mycoides / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011002:Pleuropneumonia, Contagious / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary