Rolling disease has been produced and studied in rats and mice, using the exotoxin of the A strain of Mycoplasma neurolyticum. The primary lesion of the brain consists of spongiform degeneration, associated with vesicle formation in the cortex and underlying white matter of the cerebral hemispheres, and in the molecular layer of the cerebellum. The brains of animals surviving 2 days or longer s...

Contagious agalactia (CA) is a highly infectious disease of goats and sheep, and is a form of Mycoplasmosis,which is usually enzootic. Since Mycoplasma agalactiae (M. agalactiae) is the main cause of this disease ingoats, the aim of this study was to isolate and detect M. agalactiae from semen of goat bucks. Thirty-nine semensamples were collected from goat bulks, and all samples were cultured ...

  Mycoplasma capricolum subsp capricolum (Mcc) is one of the etiological agents of contagious agalactia(C.A) in goats which can cause significant economic losses. The aim of this study was to detect Mcc from goats of Qom province in Iran. A total of 111 samples were collected from suspected goats to C.A and cultured in PPLO broth supplemented for Mcc isolation. The bacteria DNAs were extracted ...

Morowitz, Harold J. (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.), Mark E. Tourtellotte, and Mary E. Pollack. Use of porous cellulose ester membranes in the primary isolation and size determination of pleuropneumonia-like organisms. J. Bacteriol. 85:134-136. 1963.-Millipore filters were used in the primary isolation and sizing of a number of strains of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO). Maximal pore ...

A recent study and review of the literature (Ford, 1960) provided no support for the view that the usual strains of genital pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLU) were a cause of non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU). It was noted, however, that Shepard (1956, 1957, 1960) had isolated morphologically distinct T-strain PPLO from the genital tract of patients with NGU, and that he believed these T-strai...

Contagious agalactia (C.A) is an infectious syndrome of sheep that is characterized by mastitis and subsequent failure of milk production, arthritis, abortion and keratoconjunctivitis. Mycoplasma agalactiae (M. agalactiae) is the main cause of the disease in sheep. The aim of this study was isolation and identification of M. agalactiae with culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay from...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen which can cause both respiratory disease and synovial joint inflammation (synovitis) in poultry. Mycoplasmas spp. may cause the respiratory system infection in ostriches with symptoms such as inflammation of the nose, trachea and also damages of lungs. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to use the M. synoviae specific Polymerase Ch...

Although the organisms of the pleuropneumonia group isolated from man (Paine et al., 1950; Keller and Morton, 1954) and from several species of animals (Tang et al., 1936; Delaplane, 1948; Hoyt et al., 1951; Sheriff and Piercy, 1952) have been cultivated in the chick embryo, the goat pleuropneumonia-like organism (PPLO) recently isolated from goats and reported by us, to our knowledge, has not ...