Contagious agalactia is an infectious syndrome of sheep that is characterized by mastitis with reduction of milk production, arthritis, abortion, and keratoconjunctivitis. The disease is rapidly spread by the contact of the infected animals with the healthy ones. Domestic sheep and goats of both sexes can be infected at an equivalent frequency. Most of the researchers use culture and molecular ...

Background: Contagious agalactia causes significant economic losses. The aim of this study is to investigate the presence contagious disease in cities Isparta and Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. Methods: includes 45.500 animals 220 ovine enterprises samples were taken from those suspected disease. 202 21 comprised 139 goats, 56 sheep, 3 kid 2 lambs total sampled. A 289 collected, including 91 milk samp...

Contagious agalactia affects goats and sheep. In most infected sheep, the causal agent, Mycoplasma agalactiae, induces mastitis and/or agalactia, keratoconjunctivitis and arthritis. However, a few strains of M. agalactiae were isolated from tank milk from flocks without any clinical signs. The present study was undertaken to compare these apparently "asymptomatic" strains to classical virulent ...

Contagious agalactiae is a disease of sheep & goats, which is caused by Mycoplasma agalactiae and induces heavy economic losses. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify M. agalactia from sheep and goats at Fars province. Clinical samples such as milk, eye swabs and synovial fluids were collected from infected animals. The collected samples were transferred in a transport medium which ...