| seroepidemiological survey of sheep flocks from northern japan for mycoplasma ovipneumoniae and mycoplasma agalactiae. | sheep flocks from hokkaido, iwate and aomori, three northern prefectures of japan, were screened for antibodies to mycoplasma ovipneumoniae and mycoplasma agalactiae by elisa. sixty four animals out of 246 (26%) were seropositive to m. ovipneumoniae, with positive results obtained from all three prefectures. none of the sera tested were serologically positive to m. agalactiae. | 2011 | 21830171 |
| mycoplasma ovis detected in free-living japanese serows, capricornis crispus. | nineteen blood samples collected from free-ranging wild japanese serows, capricornis crispus, between 2006 and 2008 in iwate prefecture were examined for the hemoplasma infection by real-time pcr targeting the 16s rrna gene. five (26.3%) out of the 19 samples were positive in real-time pcr with an average melting temperature at 85.18 °c. the positive samples in the real-time pcr were reconfirmed by conventional pcr, and one of them was successful for direct dna sequencing. the nucleotide sequenc ... | 2010 | 20962460 |