Atypical non-progressive pneumonia in goats.
An outbreak of severe respiratory disease in a goat herd was associated with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, Mycoplasma arginini, Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida with mortality rates exceeding 20% in kids. Post mortem features in affected kids included severe pleuropneumonia, lung consolidation, large quantities of pleural fluid and pericarditis. This is the first report of atypical proliferative pneumonia in goats in Portugal.
Gonçalves
Rosário
R
Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária, Estrada de Benfica 701, 1549-011 Lisboa, Portugal. rosarinhogon@yahoo.co.uk
Mariano
Isabel
I
Núñez
Alejandro
A
Branco
Sandra
S
Fairfoul
Graham
G
Nicholas
Robin
R
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006041:Goats; D008297:Male; D016978:Mannheimia haemolytica / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D045802:Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012766:Pasteurellosis, Pneumonic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011174:Portugal / Q000453:epidemiology