Clinical evaluation and study of the occurrence of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides in cattle in the region of Pirassununga in São Paulo

• Grant number: 10/07882-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: July 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Lilian Gregory
• Grantee: Gabriela Tortorelli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides is the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), the main bacterial infectious disease, characterized by intense sero-fibrinous pleuritis and edema lobes and alveolar tissues of the catle respiratory tract.The diagnosis in herds, by techniques laboratory is very important, since it is a zoonosis and is not always the carrier animal shows clinical signs. Will be done a harvest of the tracheal lavage, isolation in culture and detection by PCR of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides in healthy cattle (carriers) and catle with pneumonia in the region of Pirassununga in São Paulo.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TORTORELLI, G.; CARRILLO GAETA, N.; MENDONCA RIBEIRO, B. L.; MIRANDA MARQUES, L.; TIMENETSKY, J.; GREGORY, L.. Evaluation of Mollicutes Microorganisms in Respiratory Disease of Cattle and Their Relationship to Clinical Signs. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE, v. 31, n. 4, p. 1215-1220, JUL-AUG 2017. (10/07882-0)