(14) Mycoplasma Flashcards
1
Q
(Mycoplasma Bovis)
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
A
- cattle
- direct
- mastitis, polyarthritis, pneumonia
2
Q
(Mycoplasma Mycoides subsp. mycoides)
- Disease
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Immunity
- in the US?
A
- bovine suppurative pleuropneumonia
- cattle
- direct - contagious
- hard breathing, difficult to move
highly fatal!!!
- vx
- no
3
Q
(Mycoplasma Mycoides subsp capri/capripneumoniae )
- Disease
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Path
A
- pnuemonia and pleurisy in goats
- goats
- direct
- fever, cough, ataxia - morality depend on strain
- ciliostatic
4
Q
(Mycoplasma galacticae)
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
A
- sheep and goats
- direct - contagious
- mastitis after lambing/kidding
5
Q
(Mycoplasma Hyopneumoniae)
- Disease
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Path
- Diagnosis
- Immunity
- how common - seen often with what other disease?
A
- enzootic pneumonia in pigs
- swine
- aerosol
- sub - low weight gain (problem)
- stress –> damage to cilia (due to immune response)
- culture/PCR
- vx - not very effective
- most herds pos - co-infection with PRRSV
6
Q
(M. Hyorhinis)
- Host
- Clinical Signs
- Path
- Notes?
A
- pigs
- polyserosits/lameness is piglets
- stress induces
- EMERGING CONCERN
7
Q
(M. Gallisepticum)
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Path
- Notes?
A
- chickens and turkeys
- venereal/egg/aerosol
- chickens - chronic resp infection
turkeys - sinusitis
- ciliostatic
- caused high mortality conjuctivitis in house fichnes
8
Q
(M. Synoviae)
- Disease
- Host
- Clinical Signs
A
- infectious synovitis
- chickens and turkeys
- joints messed up/poor weight gain
9
Q
(M Meleagradis)
- Disease
- Host
- Transmission
- Notes?
A
- air sacculitis
- turkeys (chickens less susc)
- adult carriers
- most economically important mycoplasma WW
10
Q
no primary mycoplasma disease in dogs or horses
A
11
Q
(M Felis)
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
A
- cats
- upper resp tract of older
- conjuctivits in kittens
- PCR of secretions
- doxycycline
12
Q
(M Haemophilus)
- Disease
- Host
- Transmission
- Clinical Signs
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- infected cats are COOMBS (ab against RBC) pos - wwhy?
A
- Feline infectious Anemia
- cats
3 tick, flea, louse, rat bite
or direct
(recovered cats carriers for life)
- sub - if bad anemia
- PCR
- prednisone
- bacteria colonize RBC