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Title: | Clinico-pathological and haematological findings in goat kids experimentally infected simultaneously with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri and Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (large colony-type) | Authors: | Gutiérrez Cabrera, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, J. L. Montoya, J. A. Fernandez, A. |
Keywords: | Subspecies Mycoides Pathogenicity Sheep Polyarthritis Pneumonia, et al |
Issue Date: | 1999 | Publisher: | 0921-4488 | Journal: | Small Ruminant Research | Abstract: | In this paper we describe an experimental clinical and haematological study in five goat kids 1 week of age. The animals were inoculated with two species of mycoplasma belonging to the M. mycoides cluster, which had been previously isolated simultaneously from a caprine pleuropneumonia outbreak in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The experimental infection showed an acute septicaemic clinico-pathological picture with lethal outcome. The lesions in lungs were characterised by acute bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia. The haematological data were as follows: lymphocytic and neutropenic leukopenia, an increase in prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time, a decrease in Antithrombin III, fibrinogen and thrombocytopenia. These data were associated with a severe diffuse microthrombosis demonstrating the central role of the disseminated intravascular coagulation in this mycoplasma infection. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/47554 | ISSN: | 0921-4488 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0921-4488(98)00151-5 | Source: | Small Ruminant Research[ISSN 0921-4488],v. 31, p. 187-192 |
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