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LSI e-Catalogue 2012 Veterinary Diagnostic Kits Elisa, PCR and BVD (English) LSI’s catalog 2012
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e-Catalogue LSI 2012 des kits de diagnostic vétérinaire Elisa, PCR et BVD (FR)Catalogue LSI 2012
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LSI - Laboratoire Service International
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Parc Tertiaire Bois-Dieu
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MYCOPLASMOSIS BOVINE
Mycoplasmas—most of which are host-specific—cause chronic diseases that progress slowly in humans and animals. Antibiotics often fail to sterilise these infections and in animal husbandry, mycoplasmosis is responsible for substantial economic losses.
- The bacterium Mycoplasma agalactiae is a common pathogen of small ruminants and is of major importance in veterinary medicine. It is the causative agent of contagious agalaxia, the main form of mycoplasmosis in European ovines and caprines which has serious impact on the dairy industry. Although in ovines, this disease is always due to M. agalactiae, other species-M. mycoides and M. capricolum can cause a similar disease in goats. Infection is often oral or mammary with an incubation period ranging from two weeks to two months.
- The species Mycoplasma bovis which is closely related to M. agalactiae, causes respiratory and mammary pathology in bovines, and is also important in economic terms (causing calf pneumonia, mastitis and arthritis). These two pathogens induce similar symptoms in their respective hosts and they are difficult to differentiate using conventional diagnostic methods because they are so closely related.
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