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Detection of antibodies to mycoplasmas in South American camelids.
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Research in veterinary science [Res Vet Sci] 1991 Nov; Vol. 51 (3), pp. 250-3. - Publication Year :
- 1991
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Abstract
- Indirect haemagglutination tests on sera from 757 South American camelids (alpacas, llamas and vicunas) carried out in the Andean region of Peru, revealed evidence of exposure mainly to Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides LC. The incidence of detectable antibodies to this mycoplasma in 554 alpacas was 5.0 per cent and in 141 llamas 15.6 per cent. Antibody to Mycoplasma capricolum and the F38 biotype was detected in 0.9 per cent and 0.2 per cent of alpacas, respectively. In a group of 62 vicunas only one reactor to both M m mycoides LC and M capricolum was observed. No reactors to M mycoides subspecies capri or M agalactiae were observed in the flocks examined. Antibodies to mycoplasma were also detected in nine out of 10 goat flocks tested. The incidence of antibodies to M m mycoides LC was 13.8 per cent, 3.8 per cent for M capricolum and 1.8 per cent for the F38 biotype. In a group of 110 sheep, six reactors (5.5 per cent) to M m mycoides LC and one (0.9 per cent) to F38 were observed. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to the involvement of mycoplasmas in existing disease in camelids in Peru.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Antibodies, Bacterial blood
Goat Diseases epidemiology
Goats
Hemagglutination Tests
Peru epidemiology
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma epidemiology
Prevalence
Sheep
Sheep Diseases epidemiology
Camelids, New World
Mycoplasma immunology
Mycoplasma mycoides immunology
Pleuropneumonia, Contagious epidemiology
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma veterinary
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0034-5288
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Research in veterinary science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1780576
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-5288(91)90072-v