Mycoplasmas

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• Cause peritonitis in sheep and peritonitis in goats and peritonitis in pigs
• Can be secondary to IBR
• Enzootic pneumonia of pigs caused by M. hyopneumoniae and M. hyorhinis
• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia caused by M. mycoides
• M. bovis, M. dispar and Ureaplasma in Enzootic pneumonia of calves
• May cause lymphocytic chronic inflammation (peribronchiolar and perialveolar cuffing).
• M. felis in mild respiratory infection
• M. ovipneumoniae in enzootic pneumonia of lambs
• M. hyosynovia and M. hyorhinis produce syndrome similar to Glasser's disease with milder expression, menigitis rare, arthritis most consistent
• In cattle arthritis