Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia

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Caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum and occasionally M. mycoides subsp. capri or M. mycoides subsp. mycoides

  • Occurs in Africa and Turkey
  • Pneumonia, fibrinous pleurisy, pleural exudate, consolidated and emphysematous lungs
  • Aerosol transmission; highly contagious