An outbreak of severe respiratory disease in a goat herd was associated with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, Mycoplasma arginini, Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida with mortality rates exceeding 20% in kids. Post mortem features in affected kids included severe pleuropneumonia, lung consolidation, large quantities of pleural fluid and pericarditis. This is the first report of atypical ...

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a causative agent of porcine pleuropneumonia that is one of the important bacterial diseases of the respiratory tract of pigs. The disease occurs worldwide and results in serious economic losses to the pig-rearing industry. In this review, new typing methods based on the antigenic and genetic diversity of a protective outer membrane lipoprotein (OmlA), that ha...

Accurate and reliable methods for the quantitative measurement of the growth of pleuropneumonia-like organisms have never been developed. Studies on members of this group of organisms have advanced in recent years to the stage at which further developments will be impeded by the lack of such methods. Generally techniques employed for rapid quantitation of bacterial growth, such as turbidity, pa...

Pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) have frequently been isolated from the human genital tract since the first report by Dienes and Edsall (1937); their presence in the urethral discharge of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (N.G.U.) aroused interest because of the unknown aetiology of the disease. The significance ofPPLO in the genital tract and their association with N.G.U. are disput...

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between tail lesions, cold carcass weight, and viscera condemnations in an Irish abattoir. The following data were collected at the evisceration point from every third pig slaughtered over 7 days: farm identification, sex, tail lesion score, viscera inspection outcome, and cold carcass weight. Tail lesions were scored according to a 5-point s...