caprine mycoplasmosis: widespread infection in goats with mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides (large-colony type). | a mycoplasma survey of goats with a history of mastitis, polyarthritis, and pneumonia revealed a high incidence of mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides (large-colony type). during the early winter kidding season of 1979-1980, kid morbidity in a large commercial dairy herd, evidenced by hyperthermia, polyarthritis, and pneumonia, exceeded 90%. in excess of 200 kids died. colostral cultures of the parent does yielded 157 isolations from 605 goats (26%). additional isolations were made from goats wit ... | 1983 | 6338774 |
association between an outbreak strain causing mycoplasma bovis mastitis and its asymptomatic carriage in the herd: a case study from idaho, usa. | the objective of this study was to determine the association between mycoplasma mastitis and colonization of mycoplasma organisms at body sites of asymptomatic carriers. the investigation was done in a dairy herd with a first outbreak of mycoplasma mastitis. milk and swab solution specimens from accessible mucosal surfaces of body sites from cows and replacements were sampled at quarterly intervals (herd samplings 1-4). samples were cultured and mycoplasma spp. were isolated, speciated and finge ... | 2010 | 19880206 |