Schimke, Robert T. (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.) and Michael F. Barile. Arginine metabolism in pleuropneumonia-like organisms isolated from mammalian cell culture. J. Bacteriol. 86:195-206. 1963.-Arginine degradation is a significant metabolic process for pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO; Mycoplasma) isolated from cell culture. The conversion of arginine to ornithine in PPL...

Weibull, C. (Central Bacteriological Laboratory of Stockholm City, Stockholm, Sweden), and Britt-Marie Lundin. Size and shape of pleuropneumonia-like organisms grown in liquid media. J. Bacteriol. 84:513-519. 1962.-Samples of liquid cultures containing mainly nonaggregated cells of Mycoplasma agalactiae or M. laidlawii were transferred to agar blocks containing the same medium as the liquid cul...

An investigation was done on outbreak of acute respiratory disease in goats in Central zone of Tanzania, the investigation involved 3 districts. (Mpwapwa, Dodoma and Kilosa districts). The study involved goats from the field, livestock markets and abattoirs. Samples from clinical and pathological examination of goats with respiratory distress were subjected to microbiological and molecular anal...

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) caused by Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (Mmm) is an economically very important cattle disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease causes high morbidity and mortality losses to cattle. CBPP impacts animal health and poverty of livestock-dependent people through decreased animal productivity, reduced food supply and the cost of control measures. CBPP...

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (Mccp) which belongs to the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, a group of five closely related Mycoplasmas, pathogenic to ruminants. The true lesions of CCPP are restricted to the alveolar tissues of infected goats, which distinguish it from other respiratory diseases of small ruminants caused by membe...

Ford, Denys K. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). Culture of human genital "T-strain" pleuropneumonia-like organisms. J. Bacteriol. 84:1028-1034. 1962.-The conditions under which "T-strain" pleuropneumonia-like organisms, as described by Shepard, are best cultured were investigated. The organisms were found to grow on several types of nutrient agar and broth, of which PPLO med...

The isolation of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) from the urethral secretions of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis has been reported by many workers and has led to the suggestion that they may be a possible cause of this condition, although they have also been found in the genital tract of apparently healthy males. Other organisms of the pleuropneumonia group are known to be associa...