| contagious caprine pleuropneumonia outbreak in captive wild ungulates at al wabra wildlife preservation, state of qatar. | contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (ccpp) caused by mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae is a highly contagious and serious respiratory disease of domestic goats, characterized by coughing, severe respiratory distress, and high mortality rates. the lesions at necropsy are mainly a fibrinous pleuropneumonia with increased straw-colored pleural fluid. an outbreak of ccpp in wild goat (capra aegagrus), nubian ibex (capra ibex nubiana), laristan mouflon (ovis orientalis laristanica), and ger ... | 2007 | 17469281 |
| multi-locus sequence analysis of mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae for the molecular epidemiology of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia. | abstract: mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (mccp) is the causative agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (ccpp), a devastating disease of domestic goats. the exact distribution of ccpp is not known but it is present in africa and the middle east and represents a significant threat to many disease-free areas including europe. furthermore, ccpp has been recently identified in tajikistan and china. a typing method with an improved resolution based on multi-locus sequence analysis ... | 2011 | 21756321 |