Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia, or Lung Plague

To kill or not to kill: the eradication of contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia in western Europe.

The use of slaughter or "stamping-out" programmes has been a consistent feature of public animal health strategies, in Western Europe at least, for some three centuries to the present date. Originally developed in the early eighteenth century, the concept survived the explosion of veterinary scientific knowledge and capacity from the late nineteenth century onwards. Its importance has been main...

Phylacogen in Pleuro-Pneumonia

Isothermal loop-mediated amplification (lamp) for diagnosis of contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia

BACKGROUND Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is the most important chronic pulmonary disease of cattle on the African continent causing severe economic losses. The disease, caused by infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides is transmitted by animal contact and develops slowly into a chronic form preventing an early clinical diagnosis. Because available vaccines confer a low pro...

Arthritis in rats produced by pleuro-pneumonia-like organisms.

Attempts to produce in animals conditions resembling various rheumatic diseases have been numerous and have employed a wide variety of agents. Such work has usually had as its object the investigation of the part played by a certain factor in the causation of rheumatic conditions or the provision of animal subjects to test the efficacy of therapeutic agents. The work reported here was undertake...

Incidence of pleuro-pneumonia-like organisms (P.P.L.O.) in man.

P.P.L.O. cultures were grown on a soft nutrient agar (0-8 per cent.) with horse serum (15 per cent.), and substances inhibiting the growth of undesired bacteria (thallium acetate 1: 2000 (w/v) and penicillin 50 I.U./ ml.) (Edward, 1947). Identification was by observation of the morphological characteristics of colonies and growth specificities, and the microscopic picture was studied with a pha...