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Barreto,Maria Lucia; Nascimento,Elmiro Rosendo do; Campos,Carlos Augusto de Martino; Nascimento,Maria da Graça Fichel do; Lignon,Gilberto Brasil; Lira,Marie Luce Flores; Silva,Ricardo G.. |
This work was conducted on rats in two premises located in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One is classified as conventional controlled and the other, conventional. The objective of the present study was to detect the presence of Mycoplasma pulmonis in animals with symptoms of respiratory disease and low reproductive performance. In the conventional controlled premises, 16 rats of Wistar-Furth strain were necropsied while in the conventional premises necropsy was performed on 12 rats of Hooded Lister strain. The clinical samples of lungs, trachea, oropharynx, middle ear, uterus and ovaries were subjected to culturing while the sera were tested for antibody detection. From 28 rats, 57.14% (16/28) were culture positive for M. pulmonis, being 81.25%... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mycoplasma pulmonis; Diagnosis; Isolation; Serology; Rats. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822002000300015 |
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