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Eight hundred and fifty-four piglets which died or were euthanized due to pneumonia or rhinitis atrophicans, were investigated during the period of 1986-1990. Of the animals, 569 showed bronchopneumonia, 218 had pleuritis, pericarditis and peritonitis, 165 had rhinitis atrophicans, 58 pleuropneumonia, and 9 animals had fibrinous pneumonia. Pasteurella multocida, Haemophilus parasuis, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Pasteurella haemolytica were isolated in 59.1%, 29.5%, 27.8%, 3.7%, and 2.3% cases of bronchopneumonia respectively. Samples from pigs with pleuritis or rhinitis atrophicans showed Pasteurella multocida in 63.8 and 68.5%, Bordetella bronchiseptica in 28.4 and 39.4%, streptococci in 28.9 and 3.9%, Haemophilus parasuis in 25.2% and 20.6%, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in 5.1 and 5.5%, and Pasteurella haemolytica in 3.2 and 3.0%, respectively Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae was found in 51 of 58 cases of pleuropneumonia and in 5 of 9 cases of fibrinous pneumonia; 55.6% and 44.4% respectively of those forms of pneumonia were positive for Pasteurella multocida. In the agar diffusion test, 36.8-82.6% of bacterial isolates showed resistance to streptomycin, 7.7-45.5% to sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, 5.7-44.6% to tetracycline, 0.2-32.8% to ampicillin, 0.0-16.3% to lincospectin, 2.0-81.2% to furazolidone, 0.4-4.5% to chloramphenicol, 1.3-78.1% to penicillin and 0-0.3% to enrofloxacin.
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PMID:[Occurrence and drug resistance of bacteria pathogenic to the lungs from autopsy material of swine]. 148 Dec 14

Upon admission to Box Hill Hospital in Victoria, Australia, a 38-year old woman was pale and febrile (328.6 degrees Celsius) and had a pulse of 88 beats/minute. She had had midabdominal pain for 1 week and severe lower abdominal pain for 2 days. Her menses were heavy. Other than pain during examination, rectal and vaginal examinations were normal. She had considerable neutrophilia (leukocyte count = 21.2 x 1 billion). The X-ray revealed free fluid. Ultrasonography indicated an IUD which she had had for 10 years, a mass with small cystic areas near the right ovary, and fluid in the rectouterine pouch. The physicians suspected peritonitis and administered iv broad spectrum antibiotics (1 mg ampicillin, 80 mg gentamicin, and 500 mg metronidazole) every 8 hours. They did a laparotomy. An abscess containing much green pus, the necrotic right ovary, and the appendix, which appeared normal and later shown not to be infected, occupied the right iliac fossa. The tubes were fine. The surgeons removed the appendix and right ovary. They washed out the abdomen with saline and inserted a drain to the right iliac fossa. The woman improved immediately so the physicians stopped antibiotics 3 days after surgery. Histological tests revealed actinomycosis caused by fast-growing aerobic bacteria which is known to cause necrosis, fibrosis, and suppuration. During recovery, the physicians removed the IUD and performed dilation and curettage. Actinomyces normally just dwell in the mouth and intestines, but, in this case, probably migrated up the IUD tail after spreading from the bowel to the perineum to the vagina. The physicians suspected that the presence of Mycoplasma hominis provided the mucosal breach needed to permit actinomyces' invasion. Physicians should consider actinomycosis in acute abdominal sepsis cases with a longterm use of an IUD. They can treat it with antibiotics since Actinomyces tend to be sensitive to broad spectrum antibiotics.
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PMID:Ovarian actinomycosis presenting as acute peritonitis. 158 8

Six horses with dysphagia (attributable to botulism, glossitis, or guttural pouch mycosis) were given a commercially available liquid diet as the sole source of nutrition. Seven horses with hypophagia caused by severe bacterial pleuropneumonia or peritonitis were given the liquid diet to supplement food consumed voluntarily. The liquid diet was administered through a nasogastric tube 2 or 3 times daily. Body weight did not change significantly, and pertinent laboratory values remained at satisfactory concentrations throughout the feeding period. Serious complications were not encountered. Three horses developed loose, low-volume feces, but did not require treatment.
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PMID:Use of a liquid diet as the sole source of nutrition in six dysphagic horses and as a dietary supplement in seven hypophagic horses. 212 65

A mycoplasma survey of goats with a history of mastitis, polyarthritis, and pneumonia revealed a high incidence of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides (large-colony type). During the early winter kidding season of 1979-1980, kid morbidity in a large commercial dairy herd, evidenced by hyperthermia, polyarthritis, and pneumonia, exceeded 90%. In excess of 200 kids died. Colostral cultures of the parent does yielded 157 isolations from 605 goats (26%). Additional isolations were made from goats with polyarthritis, peritonitis, CNS disorders, and pneumonia; these animals represented 6 California counties and the states of Arizona and Idaho. Identification was accomplished by growth inhibition and immunofluorescent studies. Titers in the colostrum, although variable, were as high as 1 x 10(10) viable organisms/ml and remained virtually undiminished after storage at 5 C for periods of greater than or equal to 4 weeks. The experimental inoculation of the organism into normal goats 1 week to 2 years of age resulted in the death of most animals between the 4th and 14th day after inoculation, whether the organism was administered intraperitoneally, IM, into the teat canal, or orally to young animals. The primary lesions were a fibrinopurulent polyarthritis, fibrinous pleuritis, and pneumonia. It appears that goats can acquire the infection through ingestion, and the organism seems to be widespread in the United States.
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PMID:Caprine mycoplasmosis: widespread infection in goats with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides (large-colony type). 633 74

Several mycoplasma isolation trials were performed on infertile goose eggs and goose embryos which died during incubation, as well as on geese of different ages. A total of 43 out of 110 goose eggs proved to be contaminated by mycoplasmas. Upon autopsy of birds which laid positive eggs, lesions were observed in the airsacs. Mycoplasmas could be isolated from their air sacs and oviduct. Four out of 15 strains examined biochemically and serologically with antisera prepared against all known avian mycoplasma species were identified as Acholeplasma laidlawii and A. axanthum, respectively. Two strains proved to be glucose-positive and arginine-negative and 9 were glucose-negative but arginine-positive. Some strains caused 50-80% mortality among embryos inoculated intra-yolk-sac at 12 days. In goslings inoculated at the age of 3 days with these strains, we observed fibrinous airsacculitis and peritonitis. By inoculating laying geese with one of the strains, we demonstrated decreasing egg production, increasing early-embryo mortality and egg transmission of mycoplasmas.
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PMID:Isolation and pathogenicity of mycoplasmas from geese. 671 63

A mycoplasma identified as Mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides LC type was isolated from an outbreak of caprine pleuropneumonia and serofibrinous peritonitis. This isolate was the first to be reported in Italy. Experimentally, a rapidly fatal condition followed its inoculation into goats and sheep but inoculation of calves did not lead to clinically apparent infection. Although the organism was recovered for up to 45 days following experimental inoculation of calves, pathological changes were limited to the drainage lymph nodes except in one case where there were histological changes in the lungs.
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PMID:Mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides, LC type, from goats in Italy. 676 May 27

Epizootiological observations were made on an outbreak of pneumococcal infection occurred in 14 inbred guinea pig colonies during January to October, 1981. Monthly incidences of diseased animals ranged from 16.6 to 0%, showing the highest rate in the first month of the occurrence. Affection rates were remarkably different according to guinea pig strains, being 75% in JY-1 but 0% in JYG and Strain 2. Affected animals showed ruffled fur, dry-dirty noses, emaciated abdomen and dyspnea, and some of them were resulted in death. At necropsy, the fibrinopurulent pneumonia, pleuropneumonia and pleuritis were found as the major pathological features, and in addition, the fibrinopurulent pericarditis and peritonitis with a large amount of exudate were also observed in some cases. Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated from nearly all the affected organs, and also from the external nares and trachea. Isolation rate from the external nares was especially high, thus 97.1% of infected guinea pigs including healthy carriers were detected by cultivation of nasal swab samples. Carrier rates of healthy animals were gradually increased from 17.2% in April to 36.5% in October, but the organism was not detected from JYG strain at all. During the observation period, vaccination, advance of weaning age of animals and administration of high vitamin C dose were taken as preventive measures of the epizootic, but no remarkable effect was obtained. The same diseased conditions were successfully produced in Hartley guinea pigs by experimental nasal infection of a pneumococcal strain isolated from this epizootic.
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PMID:An epizootic of pneumococcal infection occurred in inbred guinea pig colonies. 685 18

Chlamydia trachomatis was recovered from the fallopian tubes of ten women with acute salpingitis. The median age of the patients was 19 years. The duration of pelvic pain before consulting a physician ranged from three to 27 days (median, seven days). Half of the patients complained of irregular bleeding, and nine reported increased vaginal discharge. One patient had a rectal temperature of greater than 38 C, and one had an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of less than 15 mm/hr. At laparoscopy, mild inflammatory changes were seen in the tubes of three patients, five had moderately severe inflammation, and two had pelvic peritonitis. C. trachomatis could not be isolated from the cervix of two patients. Paired sera were available from eight patients, six of whom had a significant rise in titer of IgG antibodies to C. trachomatis. Two women had IgM antibodies. Two other women, who harbored Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the cervix, had antibodies to gonococcal pili; one had a significant decrease in titer. This latter patient was one of the patients with a stationary titer of antibodies to C trachomatis. One patient had a stationary titer of antibodies to Mycoplasma hominis. In general, chlamydial salpingitis seems to have relatively benign symptoms. Neither the failure to isolate C. trachomatis from the cervix nor a stationary titer of antibodies to the organism precludes a chlamydial etiology of acute salpingitis.
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PMID:Acute salpingitis with Chlamydia trachomatis isolated from the fallopian tubes: clinical, cultural, and serologic findings. 725 92

A retrospective study of 256 cases of naturally acquired Streptococcus suis infections in swine submitted to the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory from 1985 to 1989 was undertaken to describe the clinical signs, lesions, and coexisting organisms associated with S. suis serotypes 1-8 and 1/2. Infected pigs generally had clinical signs and gross lesions referable to either the respiratory system or to the central nervous system (CNS), but not both. Neurologic signs were inversely related to gross lesions in the respiratory tract (R2 = -0.19, P = 0.003), as were respiratory signs and gross lesions in the CNS (R2 = -0.19, P = 0.003). Suppurative bronchopneumonia was the most common gross lesion observed (55.2%, overall). Fibrinous and/or suppurative pleuritis, epicarditis, pericarditis, arthritis, peritonitis, and polyserositis were also reported. In 68% of the pigs, other bacteria in addition to S. suis were isolated. Escherichia coli (35.0%) and Pasteurella multocida (30.0%) were the most commonly recovered bacterial agents. Mycoplasma and viral agents were identified less often, and their role in the development of streptococcosis was difficult to assess. In pigs infected with serotypes 2-5, 7, 8, and 1/2, suppurative meningitis with suppurative or nonsuppurative encephalitis, suppurative bronchopneumonia, fibrinopurulent epicarditis, multifocal myocarditis, and cardiac vasculitis were the most common microscopic lesions observed, whereas pigs infected with serotype 1 generally presented with suppurative meningitis and interstitial pneumonia. Microscopic lesions were morphologically similar among serotypes and were also similar to those reported with other pyogenic bacteria.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Streptococcus suis infection in swine: a retrospective study of 256 cases. Part II. Clinical signs, gross and microscopic lesions, and coexisting microorganisms. 794 2

Mycoplasma mycoides ssp. mycoides LC (large colony type) (MML) was isolated from three 2 to 6 weeks old wild goat kids (Capra aegagrus cretica) dead of septicemia in a Swiss zoo. Necropsy revealed peritonitis, pneumonia and enteritis. MML was isolated out of the ear canal of most of the healthy animals in the flock. The high density of the animals, the presence of concomitant diseases and the carriage among healthy animals seem to have been important predisposing factors for the MML-infection.
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PMID:[Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides ssp. mycoides LC (large colony type) in bezoar goat kids (Capra aegagrus cretica) in the Bern (Switzerland) Zoo]. 809 Nov 81


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