A live vaccine for contagious agalactia is protective but does not provoke an ELISA response

Mycoplasma Agalacciae. V- Comparison of three different contagious agalactia vaccine

Contagious agalactia of sheep and goats

Diagnosis can be performed in any laboratory which has the appropriate culture media. Identification of the three mycoplasmas responsible is relatively easy on the basis of cultural and biochemical characteristics, confirmed serologically. A clinical diagnosis within a herd can be confirmed by detecting serum antibodies by the complement fixation or ELISA techniques, which are also suitable for...

Salmonella flagellin is not a dominant protective antigen in oral immunization with attenuated live vaccine strains.

We found that oral immunization with flagellum-defective mutant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with the ClpXP-deficient background protected mice against oral challenge with the virulent strain. These data indicate that Salmonella flagellin is not a dominant protective antigen in oral immunization with attenuated live vaccine strains.

Chronic Contractile Dysfunction without Hypertrophy Does Not Provoke a Compensatory Transcriptional Response in Mouse Hearts

Diseased myocardium from humans and experimental animal models shows heightened expression and activity of a specific subtype of phospholipase C (PLC), the splice variant PLCβ1b. Previous studies from our group showed that increasing PLCβ1b expression in adult mouse hearts by viral transduction was sufficient to cause sustained contractile dysfunction of rapid onset, which was maintained indefi...

Mycoplasma agalactiae, an Etiological Agent of Contagious Agalactia in Small Ruminants: A Review

Mycoplasma agalactiae is one of the causal agents of classical contagious agalactia (CA), a serious, economically important but neglected enzootic disease of small ruminants. It occurs in many parts of the world and most notably in the Mediterranean Basin. Following the infection common complications are septicaemia, mastitis, arthritis, pleurisy, pneumonia, and keratoconjunctivitis. Primary or...