Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a major threat for cattle health and production in Africa. This disease is caused by the small-colony type of Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides (MmmSC). Transmission occurs from direct and repeated contacts between sick and healthy animals. Veterinary services recently reported a resurgence of CBPP in the province of West Wellega, in the Ethiopi...

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the causative agent of swine pleuropneumonia, a highly contagious disease associated with pigs of all ages that results in severe economic losses to the industry. Here, we report for the first time six genome sequences of A. pleuropneumoniae clinical isolates of serotype 8, found worldwide.

The initial draft of this document was prepared in June 1993 by the Ad hoc Group on Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Surveillance Systems of the Office International des Epizooties. That draft was then amended in February 1997 by the Group of experts convened at the request of the International Committee to examine issues relating to the surveillance of the disease, with particular reference t...

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) was recognised on Bako Agricultural Research Farm, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, for the first time on 5 May 2011. The outbreak was investigated by combining recognition of clinical signs, post-mortem examination, mycoplasma isolation and serological testing using competitive enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (c-ELISA). The clinical cases were monitor...

Epidemiological reports and post-mortem examination of slaughtered cattle indicate that prevalence of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in Nigeria is on the increase, despite annual mass vaccinations and other protection measures. The number of reported outbreaks increased from 20 in 1981 to 64 in 1988, 114 in 1989, 82 in 1990 and 52 in 1991 (January to June). Post-mortem examinations co...

Kelley and Morton (J. Bacteriol., 67, 129, 1954) and Smith (Appl. Microbiol., 4, 254, 1956) observed that use of colony counts or turbidimetric methods of counting pleuropneumonialike organisms are difficult at best. In some studies on the limitations of "coding" of DNA (Morowitz and Cleverdon, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta, 34, 578, 1959), we repeatedly used the Bausch and Lomb Spectronic 20 at 62...

The article presents the results of studying therapeutic efficacy complex drug tsipropig based on recombinant porcine interferons for Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia piglets at an industrial pig-breeding and its effect nonspecific immunity. It has been found that pronounced properties immunomodulatory due to presence fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin in composition tsipropig, immunocorrec...

Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae is the causative agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, a devastating disease of goats listed by the World Organization for Animal Health. Here we report the first complete genome sequence of this organism (strain M1601, a clinically isolated strain from China).

Monoclonal antibody WM-25 inhibited the in vitro growth of 13 F38 isolates from goats with contagious caprine pleuropneumonia but not 7 heterologous mycoplasma isolates representing four different species. In contrast to results with polyclonal antisera, growth inhibition by monoclonal antibody WM-25 was specific for F38 mycoplasma isolates and constituted a reliable means of distinguishing F38...