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The strains of swine mycoplasma (Tab. 1) were grown aerobically in Whittlestone's Medium containing swine serum for 4-5 days at 37 degrees C. After centrifugation and washing they were freeze-dried and extracted with a phenol-acetic acid-water solution (4:2:1) (1 ml/5 mg mycoplasma dru weight) at 4 degrees C over 48 h. After centrifugation 2 volumes of the supernatant were mixed with 1 volume of a 40% sucrose solution in 35% acetic acid. 0,15 or 0,2 ml of which were added to the acrylamide-gel (2 ml in a tube 0,5 times 10 cm) containing 5 M urea and 35% acetic acid. This solution was overlayed with 0,1 ml 75% acetic acid and tubes then filled with 10% acetic acid. The solution in both electrode chambers was 10% acetic acid, too. During the first 5 min it was separated with 2 mA/tube, then 3 or 5 h with 4 mA/tube. The protein bands were stained with amido black 10B. For control steril culture medium was investigated, too. Various preparations of freeze-dried M. hyopneumoniae gave identical protein patterns. Nearly identical were the patterns of protein bands from M. suipneumoniae and M. hyopneumoniae; that means identity of the strains or very close relationship (Figs. 1 and 2). This is in agreement with other authors who investigated both strains with serological methods. M. suipneumoniae and M. hyopneumoniae were found to be different as well from M. hyorhinis and M. sp. E9 from M. granularum (Figs. 1 and 2). Between M. hyorhinis and M. sp. E9 less relationship was noted. All these results were in agreement with investigations performed with the aid of Latex agglutination.
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PMID:[The differenziation of swine-mycoplasma by acrylamide-gel-electrophoresis (author's transl)]. 4 91

A method is presented whereby cells of Mycoplasma hominis can be prepared with minimal distortion for electron microscopy. After the addition of glutaraldehyde to broth cultures, incubation is continued for 1 h. The cells are then collected by centrifugation, washed in distilled water, and used for negative-contrast preparations.
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PMID:Effect of preparatory techniques on the gross morphology of Mycoplasma hominis. 5 51

Three trials were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Linco-Spectin (LS) water medication on Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) air-sacculitis in broilers under controlled experimental conditions. Day-old chicks were vaccinated against infectious bronchitis and Newcastle disease virus and exposed to a broth culture of MS by the respiratory route. In each trial, one-half of the flock was treated with 2 g of LS per gallon of drinking water for the first five days of life, and the other half was kept as a control. At two and eight weeks postinoculation (PI) birds were weighted individually and examined serologically, culturally, and grossly for MS airsacculitis. Linco-Spectin water medication was effective in controlling MS airsacculitis in broilers.
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PMID:Efficacy of Linco-Spectin water medication on Mycoplasma synoviae Airsacculitis in broilers. 13 Aug 99

The efficacy of Linco-Spectin (LS) water medication was determined against Mycoplasma meleagridis (MM) airsacculitis in turkey poults under controlled conditions. The poults were obtained from commercial flocks naturally infected with MM. Water medication was given for the first five days of life. In Georgia and Ohio, LS was given at 0, 1, 2, and 4 g per gallon of drinking water. In California and Minnesota, LS was administered at 0 and 2 g per gallon of drinking water. At three weeks old, the birds were weighed individually and examined serologically, culturally, and grossly for MM airsacculitis. LS at 2 g activity per gallon of drinking water was beneficial in controlling MM airsacculitis in all four trials.
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PMID:Efficacy of Linco-Spectin medication on mycoplasma meleagridis airsacculitis in turkey poults. 16 Jul 89

Serum plate (SP) and tube agglutination (TA) reactions and geometric mean Mycoplasma synoviae (Ms.) hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) titers were determined on chickens infected at 21 days of age with Ms. by foot pad, air sac and aerosol. One-half had been given Newcastle disease (ND) and infectious bronchitis (IB) vaccine in the water at 20 days of age, and the other half had not been vaccinated with ND and IB vaccine. Blood was taken at 3, 4, 6 and 8 weeks after Ms. infection. Geometric mean HI titers were determined on serums of chickens that had a foot pad injection of Ms. 8 weeks after Ms. infection and were bled at 1, 3 and 5 weeks after foot pad booster. Three weeks after aerosol exposure with Ms., the geometric mean HI titer was significantly higher in the ND- and IB-vaccinated birds than in the nonvaccinated birds. In the Ms. air sac-infected group of nonvaccinated birds the geometric mean HI titer had increased significantly 3 weeks after food pad challenge with Ms. In the Ms. air sac-infected group of vaccinated birds, the geometric mean HI titer had significantly increased 3 and 5 weeks after foot pad challenge with Ms.
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PMID:Serological responses of broiler-type chickens, with and without Newcastle disease and infectious Bronchitis vaccine, to experimental infection with Mycoplasma synoviae by foot pad, air sac and aerosol. 16 64

In a part of the broiler flocks vaccinated against Newcastle disease (N.C.D) and infectious bronchitis (I.B.), disease symptoms of lingering nature have been observed, generally in the second half of the rearing period. In a practical investigation with weekly examinations of chickens, supplemented by a serological examination of twenty-four animals per flock at the age of six weeks, it was hoped to establish the factors responsible for this "vaccination reaction". In the district under notice the vaccination reaction syndrome had been responsible for widspread abandoning of twice spraying against N.C.D. in the first and fourth week in favour of drinking-water vaccination (generally combined with I.B. vaccination) in the second week and spray-vaccination in the fourth week or of combined drinking-water vaccination in the second week, either with or without N.C.D. drinking-water vaccination in the fourth week. Admittedly the incidence of vaccination reaction in flocks vaccinated exclusively via the drinking water was less frequent (32%) than in flocks in which the second vaccination was administered as a spray (48%), but this difference was largely accounted for by infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum and/or Mycoplasma synoviae, complicated by infection with Escherichia coli. Of the thirty-three flocks free of mycoplasmosis, 24% exhibited the vaccination reaction, while the incidence to the fifteen infected flocks was 73.4%. In flocks infected with mycoplasmosis the course of E. coli infections was serious in 46.7% of the birds, while this figure was 18.2% in flocks free of mycoplasmosis. In flocks free of mycoplasmosis, the percentage of serious E. coli infections was lower after spray vaccination (14.3%) than after drinking-water vaccination (21%). The strains of E. coli brought in by one-day chicks from the hatchery disappear rapidly and play no role of any significance in the problem of colibacillosis observed at an age of three weeks or older. Of the 310 isolated strains of E. coli, 52 could not be typed and the others belonged to eighty different serotypes. With respect to the effect of infectious bronchitis the investigation does not provide sufficient evidence to permit of drawing conclusions. A significant role in the occurrence of the syndrome was played by coccidiosis and Gumboro's disease. With respect to environmental factors the available data did not allow of drawing conclusions. The authors recommend continuing with all available means to free the breeding animals from M. gallisepticum and M. synoviae, undertaking scientifically based research into the role of infectious bronchitis in the "vaccination reaction" syndrome, an effective programme of hygiene to control E...
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PMID:[The "Vaccination Reaction" syndrome of broilers after vaccination against Newcastle disease and infectious bronchitis (author's transl)]. 17 62

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a Scientific Group to adapt its program in virus diseases to recent progress in virology. The program consists of (a) general activities, such as reference services and the supplying of reagents by the WHO Collaborating Centres and (b) specific activities to solve problems-including the promotion of necessary research-caused by certain diseases of public health importance. The Group reviewed problems caused by influenza and other respiratory viruses, enteroviruses, gastroenteritis viruses (for which types A and B have been proposed as a convenient nomenclature), viral hepatitis, viruses in water and sewage, arboviruses, arenaviruses and Marburg virus, measles and rubella vaccination, smallpox, rabies, chronic infections, herpesviruses, oncogenic viruses, congenital infections, nosocomial infections, chlamydial and rickettsial infections, and mycoplasma infections.
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PMID:The new program of the World Health Organization in medical virology. 18 63

One experimental and two field studies were conducted to assess the input of the three most common pathogenic serotypes of Escherichia coli (01a, 02a, and 078) via the hatch debris, environment of turkey buildings, and feed and water supplied these turkeys. Air samples were also taken to assess the environmental load in the experimental study. These studies revealed that in one field trial the input of E. coli 02a in conjunction with mild infections of Mycoplasma meleagridis (MM) and avian influenza (AI) contributed to an outbreak of acute colibacillosis with high mortality. E. coli 02a was isolated from the infected organs. At the processing plant, airsacculitis scores revealed lesions attributed mainly to MM. Lactose-broth rinsings of whole eviscerated turkeys indicated that pathogenic E. coli 01a and 02a could be detected at the time the turkeys are marketed.
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PMID:Epizootiological investigations of colibacillosis in turkeys. 34 78

The identification of new serotypes of Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae (parahaemolyticus) and the frequency of pleural adhesions due to contagious pleuropneumonia in many fattening swine herds have prompted the study of the complement-fixation (CF) test as a diagnostic tool for use in swine. Whole cell antigens, mixed antigens, autoclaved antigens, and phenol-water-extracted antigens derived from different serotypes were prepared and tested with immunized-swine sera by the CF test. Mixed antigen consisting of whole cells from all known serotypes was the best screening antigen for routine use. This antigen gave positive titers with all sera in which a positive reaction against the separate serotype antigen was registered. The most highly serotype-specific reactions were obtained with antigens prepared by phenol-water extractions of whole cells. When whole-cell antigens were used in the CF test, antibodies to superficial serotype-specific and common species-specific antigens could be detected.
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PMID:Evaluation of different antigens in the complement-fixation test for diagnosis of Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae (parahaemolyticus) infections in swine. 52 74

The obligate, thermophilic, acidophilic mycoplasma, Thermoplasma acidophilum, grows optimally at 56 degrees C and pH 2.0. Its plasma membrane possessed 21--22 protein bands that were resolved by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. One major membrane protein, molecular weight 152 000, which stained for carbohydrate with periodic acid-Schiff reagent, accounted for 32% (w/w) of the total membrane proteins. It was isolated and further purified by concanavalin A affinity chromatography. The carbohydrate content amounted to less than 10% (w/w) compared to that of the entire glycoprotein. The carbohydrate moiety consisted mainly of mannose residues with branched alpha 1 leads to 2 linkages at the non-reducing ends of the glycopeptide as determined by permethylation followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. The reducing end was an N-glycosidic linkage between asparagine and N-acetylglucosamine. The amino acid composition of this glycoprotein showed 62 mol% hydrophobic residues, while the acidic amino acid content contributed 9 mol% more than that of the basic amino acids. The existence of membrane glycoproteins in the procaryotic, wall-less T. acidophilum may provide a protective coat for the plasma membrane. The stereochemistry and the conformation of the carbohydrate chains, in conjunciton with water turgor, may contribute to the rigidity of the membrane and the cation binding.
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PMID:Purification and partial characterization of a procaryotic glycoprotein from the plasma membrane of Thermoplasma acidophilum. 53 27


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