Several Mycoplasma species cause serious and economically important diseases in goats world-wide. Forty goat flocks in the Pishin district of Balochistan province of Pakistan were examined for the clinical cases of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) during 2008. Thirty goats suspected for CCPP on the basis of respiratory symptoms were euthanized for post mortem examination, microbiologic...

The characteristic colony morphology is an important distinguishing feature which is used for recognizing members of the group of pleuropneumonia-like organisms. However, characteristic colony morphology may not be apparent when the organisms are freshly isolated from the body or when the growth is crowded on the surface of solid medium. In order to determine similarities or differences among t...

The recent recognition that in many parts of the world a considerable proportion of cases of urethritis are not due to the gonococcus has interested venereologists in their aetiology. Organisms of the pleuropneumonia group have been isolated from a number of men suffering from non-specific urethritis. Similar organisms have been isolated from a high proportion ofwomen, including the apparently ...

The Gram-negative bacterium Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the etiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a respiratory disease that leads to severe economic losses in the swine industry. For years, scientists working with it have lacked a reliable genome sequence for comparison with other Actinobacillus species. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of A. pleuropneumoniae serotype 7...

Intractable hiccups in transplanted patients may be caused by various medical conditions including infections. We report a case of a 44-year-old man who suffered from intractable hiccups after cadaveric kidney transplantation. We identified 3 different hiccup periods with different causes: 1) steroid and anesthetics use, 2) severe ulcerose herpetic and mycotic esophagitis, and 3) pleuropneumoni...

Pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) are the crabgrass of tissue culture. Many reports exist in the literature of successful attempts to eliminate these organisms from tissue cultures, but usually such reports were stimulated by the failure of some previously described method to be successful in the hands of the investigator. Although our cultures exhibited no overt manifestations of contamina...

A study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP) in 106 goats Bharatpur Municipality Chitwan, Nepal from July October 2021. questionnaire used potential risk factors. Collected samples were subjected a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (cELISA) for detection antibodies. The 4.71% (5/106). Although high among females and below or equa...

Shklair, I. L. (U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill.), M. A. Mazzarella, R. R. Gutekunst, and E. M. Kiggins. Isolation and incidence of pleuropneumonia-like organisms from the human oral cavity. J. Bacteriol. 83:785-788. 1962.-Pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) were isolated from the oral cavity of 87.2% (184 of 211) of young male naval recruits, by use of an enriched medium under ...