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CANINE MYCOPLASMAS I: CULTIVATION FROM CONJUNCTIVAE, RESPIRATORY‐ AND GENITAL TRACTS
Author(s) -
Rosendal S.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section b microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-5563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1973.tb02228.x
Subject(s) - conjunctiva , biology , respiratory tract , vagina , pharynx , mycoplasma , sex organ , flora (microbiology) , respiratory system , pathology , respiratory disease , microbiology and biotechnology , anatomy , immunology , lung , medicine , bacteria , genetics
The occurrence of mycoplasmas in the conjunctivae and in the respiratory and genital tracts of dogs has been investigated by cultivation experiments. Whereas mycoplasmas from conjunctiva could be cultivated in a few cases only, they occurred in a very high frequency in the upper respiratory tract without relation to clinical disease. Mycoplasmas from lungs with pneumonic lesions were cultivated, but not mycoplasmas from normal lungs. From the genital tract, they were isolated from half of the female dogs, and a little more frequently from the males. Using indirect immunofluorescence identification of mycoplasma colonies, a mixed flora was found in the pharynx of approx. 85 per cent of the examined dogs. In half of the female dogs, a mixed flora was present in the vagina whereas this was apparently not the case in the prepuce of male dogs.