Neumonía y poliartritis por Mycoplasma bovis en terneros de feedlot: primer aislamiento local
- Canton, German Jose
- Llada, Ignacio Mariano
- Margineda, Carlos Augusto
- Urtizbiria, Facundo Nahuel
- Fanti, Sofía
- Scioli, Maria Valeria
- Fiorentino, María Andrea
- Louge Uriarte, Enrique Leopoldo
- Morrell, Eleonora Lidia
- Sticotti, Erika
- Tamiozzo, Pablo
DOIAbstract
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is one of the most frequent clinical concerns in weaned calves after their arrival at the feedlot. This work reports the first local isolation of Mycoplasma bovis from feedlot calves with pneumonia and polyarthritis in Argentina. Twenty four out of 545 calves showed progressive, subacute to chronic respiratory distress, coughing, and fever. Thirty percent of the affected calves also showed lameness and swelling of elbow or carpal, and knee or tarsal joints. Five necropsies were performed and severe multifocal to coalescent pulmonary nodules, containing white-yellowish caseous exudate encircled by fibrous tissue, and fibrinonecrotic arthritis and tenosynovitis were detected. Mycoplasma was isolated from lung ...
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