Mycoplasma diseases of ruminants /

• Main Authors: Nicholas, Robin, 1951- (Author), Ayling, Roger, (Author), McAuliffe, Laura, (Author)
• Corporate Author: Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Mycoplasma diseases in animals.; Ruminants.; Mycoplasma Infections > diagnosis.; Mycoplasma Infections > veterinary.; Ruminants > Diseases.; Mycoplasma > physiology.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Diagnosis of Animal Diseases, (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Techniques and Methodology.; Cattle.; Goats.; Mycoplasma.; Sheep.; Agalactia.; Antibacterial agents.; Antigenic variation.; Diagnosis.; Diagnostic techniques.; Disease control.; Disease prevalence.; Disease prevention.; Drug resistance.; Electrophoresis.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Eye diseases.; Mycoplasmal diseases.; Mycoplasmosis.; Pleuropneumonia.; Polymerase chain reaction.; Reproductive disorders.; Research.; Respiratory diseases.; Susceptibility.; Electronic books.
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• Item Description: "Veterinary Laboratories Agency."
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book presents data on research and development carried out on mycoplasma diseases of sheep, goats and cattle over the last decade by laboratories worldwide. Chapters include discussions on the isolation and growth of mycoplasmas from ruminants, detection and differentiation of Mycoplasma spp. using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)/gradient gel electrophoresis, molecular typing of Mycoplasma spp., antigenic analysis of mycoplasmas, antimicrobial sensitivity testing, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, contagious agalactia, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, bovine respiratory diseases, respiratory diseases of small ruminants, eye infections, reproductive diseases of cattle and emerging and unculturable Mycoplasma spp.