A gene probe, CAP-21, which demonstrated interrelationships between the members of the Mycoplusma mycoides cluster w a s developed. The probe easily differentiated mycoplasmas in this cluster by clear and predictable hybridization patterns in Southern blots and separated the cluster into four groups. Strains of M. mycoides subsp, mycoides which were capable of causing contagious bovine pleuropn...

The objective of this review is to generate information about the current status contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) which recognized as highly infectious, and devastating disease goats for 140 years. However, reports indicated that sheep can be affected. CCPP caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (Mccp) severe dramatic mycoplasmas, challenging isolate properly identi...

Sharp, John T. (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.). Amino sugars in L forms of bacteria and pleuropneumonia-like organisms. J. Bacteriol. 86:692-701. 1963.-Studies of several bacterial L forms and their parent bacteria have revealed similar amino sugars in the two forms of microorganisms, with the exception that muramic acid was absent from the streptococcal and staphylococcal L forms. In c...

Porcine pleuropneumonia caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae accounts for serious economic losses in the pig farming industry worldwide. We examined here the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the recombinant type IV fimbrial subunit protein ApfA as a single antigen vaccine against pleuropneumonia, or as a component of a multi-antigen preparation comprising five other recombinant an...

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia causes oxidative stress and immune disturbances in affected goats. Hence these derogative alterations aggravate the pathogenesis severity of this disease, thus, necessitating utilization antioxidants and/or immunomodulators therapeutic regimes contagious pleuropneumonia. Present study evaluated ameliorative effects N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) alpha tocopherol (vit...