An .upper respiratory tract disease caused by mycoplasma organisms is present in many captive and wild populations of tortoises. The·disease is characterized by a variety of symptoms including conjunctivitis, nasal discharge, wheezing, choanal inflammation, anorexia, and cachexia. Most tortoises show signs of clinical improvement with the use of chemotherapeutics. A variety of different chemoth...

Avian mycoplasmosis causes great economic losses to the poultry industry, and one of the major agents involved is Mycoplasma synovie (MS). Serum from commercial poultry breeders (n = 2781) was tested for MS by serum plate agglutination (SPA), hemagglutination inhibition (HI), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). From 2,781 samples tested, 736 (26.46%) were positive in SPA. From 712 SP...