Seroprevalence, Isolation, Identification and Molecular Characterization of Mycoplasmas from Healthy and Diseased Goats
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2009
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Anand Agricultural University, Anand
Abstract
Many species belonging to the class Mollicutes are pathogenic and of great
economic concern in livestock production. The major health problem of small ruminants
is pneumonia/pleuropneumonia, which may be caused by Mycoplasma species alone or in
conjunction with other microbes. Pneumonia in small ruminants constitutes a serious
setback to the growth of this group of animals with resultant economic losses in many
parts of the world.
There is one interesting group of six closely related Mycoplasmas named the
Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, consisting of several ruminant pathogens. This group
comprises the following species, subspecies, or strains: M. capricolum subsp. capricolum
(Mcc, formerly M. capricolum), M. capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (Mccp, formerly
Mycoplasma sp. strain F38), M. mycoides subsp. capri (Mmc), the M .mycoides subsp.
mycoides large-colony (Mmm LC), M .mycoides subsp. mycoides small-colony (Mmm
SC) types and Mycoplasma sp. strain PG50.
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Veterinary Microbiology, Study