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Although the organisms of the pleuropneumonia group isolated from man (Paine et al., 1950; Keller and Morton, 1954) and from several species of animals (Tang et al., 1936; Delaplane, 1948; Hoyt et al., 1951; Sheriff and Piercy, 1952) have been cultivated in the chick embryo, the goat pleuropneumonia-like organism (PPLO) recently isolated from goats and reported by us, to our knowledge, has not ...

To establish the role of the Apx toxins in the pathogenesis of porcine pleuropneumonia, specific-pathogen-free pigs were inoculated deeply endobronchially with either culture filtrates of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 8 or 9, culture filtrates depleted of the Apx toxins by affinity chromatography, depleted culture filtrate supplemented with purified recombinant Apx toxins (rApx), or ...

Pleuropneumonia in children with heavy complications often requires surgical treatment. In the accessible literature a couple of cases with pneumonectomy in children of different ages are described. Procedure is not often done because of intervention difficulty and the high risk of intra and postoperative complications. A clinical case of one-year old child with left-sided pneumonectomy because...

As doenças respiratórias são um problema significativo na produção suína e podem levar à condenação de carcaças no abate. Entre os agentes causadores dessas destacam-se o Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae a Pasteurella multocida. O pleuropneumoniae é patógeno altamente contagioso, que ocasiona hemorragia, pleuropneumonia purulenta fibrosa. A Pleuropneumonia amplamente di...

Morowitz, Harold J. (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.), Mark E. Tourtellotte, and Mary E. Pollack. Use of porous cellulose ester membranes in the primary isolation and size determination of pleuropneumonia-like organisms. J. Bacteriol. 85:134-136. 1963.-Millipore filters were used in the primary isolation and sizing of a number of strains of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO). Maximal pore ...

The first member ofthe group ofpleuropneumonia organisms was isolated by Nocard and Roux in 1898 from cases ofcontagious pleuropneumonia of cattle, a disease in which the essential pathological lesions are gross pulmonary cedema, pleural exudate, and arthritis. A similar organism was found by Bridre and Donatien (1923, 1925) in sheep and goats suffering from agalactia, a syndrome which includes...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound enables the visualization of pleural-based lesions with a poor correlation to specific pathology. At this time, there are no data about the diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced sonography (CES) in pleural lesions. METHODS From August 2004 to January 2005, 25 consecutive patients with clinical symptoms of pleurisy and focal pleural lesions of unknown origin seen on B-mod...