Bovine genital campylobacteriosis is a venereally transmitted bacterial disease caused by Campylobacter fetus subsp venerealis. The disease is characterised by temporary infertility of female cattle as a result of a subacute diffuse mucopurulent cervicitis, endometritis and salpingitis. Abortion occurs in a small percentage of infected cows, months after initial infection. Infected bulls show n...

Chlamydia trachomatis has been recognized as a pathogen of trachoma, nongonococcal urethritis, salpingitis, endocervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, inclusion conjunctivitis of neonates, follicular conjunctivitis of adults, infantile pneumonia and associated conditions. Chlamydial infections during pregnancy may also cause a variety of perinatal complications. Different antigenic strains of...

Since the first report of Dienes and Edsall (1937), a number of communications have recorded the isolation of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) from the genital tract of the human female, especially in association with inflammatory diseases such as bartholinitis, pelvic abscess, and salpingitis (Melen and Odeblad, 195 1; Randall, Stein, and Ayres, 1950; Dienes, Ropes, Smith, Madoff, and Bau...