| mycoplasma suis infection in pigs after splenectomy. | | 2013 | 23511081 |
| mycoplasma suis infection results endothelial cell damage and activation: new insight into the cell tropism and pathogenicity of hemotrophic mycoplasma. | hemotrophic mycoplasmas (hm) are highly specialized red blood cell parasites that cause infectious anemia in a variety of mammals, including humans. to date, no in vitro cultivation systems for hm have been available, resulting in relatively little information about the pathogenesis of hm infection. in pigs, mycoplasma suis-induced infectious anemia is associated with hemorrhagic diathesis, and coagulation dysfunction. however, intravasal coagulation and subsequent consumption coagulopathy can o ... | 2013 | 23398879 |
| dysgalactia associated with mycoplasma suis infection in a sow herd. | a sudden onset of extreme dysgalactia in gilts and sows in a 1,000-head farrow-to-wean herd was observed in december 2009. signs of dysgalactia were identified in sows beginning 1 day after parturition and lasted 4 to 6 days. this resulted in a mean piglet preweaning mortality rate of 18% because of starvation. | 2012 | 23216044 |
| porcine ear necrosis syndrome: a preliminary investigation of putative infectious agents in piglets and mycotoxins in feed. | the aim of this study was to identify the causative factors of porcine ear necrosis syndrome (pens) in 72 pigs, 5.5-10 weeks in age housed on nine farms. biopsy samples of ear pinnae were collected from all piglets for bacteriology, histopathology and in situ hybridization for porcine circovirus type 2 (pcv2). at the same time, serum samples were taken for serological analysis and viral pcr, and feed was sampled for mycotoxin analysis. the initial lesion of pens seemed to be a focal epidermal ne ... | 2012 | 22784419 |
| nanotransformation of the haemotrophic mycoplasma suis during in vitro cultivation attempts using modified cell free mycoplasma media. | mycoplasma suis belongs to haemotrophic mycoplasmas (hms) which cause infectious anaemia in a large variety of mammals. to date, no in vitro cultivation system for m. suis or other hms has been established. we hypothesised that m. suis could grow in classical mycoplasma media supplemented with nutrients (e.g. glucose, iron-binding proteins) which are naturally available from its host environment, the porcine blood. blood from experimentally m. suis-infected pigs was used to inoculate either stan ... | 2012 | 22682998 |
| prevalence of swine hemoplasmas revealed by real-time pcr using 16s rrna gene primers. | hemoplasma is a tribal name for epierythrocytic mycoplasmas including mycoplasma suis and m. parvum which are currently recognized in pigs as causative of porcine hemoplasmosis. here, we report a real-time pcr assay for differential detection of these swine hemoplasma species by using allelic primers in the16s rrna gene, and its application to survey for hemoplasma infections in pigs. universal primers and species-specific primers were designed and evaluated by using swine blood samples positive ... | 2012 | 22673723 |
| insights into the gene expression profile of uncultivable hemotrophic mycoplasma suis during acute infection, obtained using proteome analysis. | hemotrophic mycoplasmas, bacteria without cell walls whose niche is the erythrocytes of their hosts, have never been cultivated in vitro. therefore, knowledge of their pathogenesis is fundamental. mycoplasma suis infects pigs, causing either acute fatal hemolytic anemia or chronic low-grade anemia, growth retardation, and immune suppression. recently, the complete genomes of two hemotrophic mycoplasma species, m. suis and m. haemofelis, were sequenced, offering new strategies for the analysis of ... | 2012 | 22267506 |