Isolation of mycoplasma and ureaplasma from uro-genital tract of dairy cows in Thailand
1997
Tipa Tanticharoenyos | Wonganun Narongwanichgarn | Apasara Worarach | Wasana Sangsuwan | Hashimoto, Kazunori (Department of Livestock, Bangkok (Thailand). National Institute of Animal Health)
Isolation of various mycoplasmas from bovine urogenital tract has been reported in many countries. The pathogenic role of them has not yet been dicided except Mycoplasma bovis which proved to be pathogenic in respiratory tract, mammary gland, and reproductive tract. During 1995 to 1996, the isolation of mycoplasmas from cervico-vaginal mucus of 40 dairy cows was carried out in Sing Buri, Surat Thani and Chon Buri provinces. Twenty-eight of them had not any reproductive disorders, while the remaining 22 of them had lesions of granular vulvovaginitis. M. bovigenitalium was isolated from only one cow in Chon Buri and Ureaplasma diversum was isolated from 12/40 (30.0 percent) in totally. Isolating ratio of U. diversum was ranged from 16.7 to 85.7 percent and isolating amount was distributed from 10*[1) to 10*[8) color changing unit per swab. Though pathological role of the isolates could not be analyzed, this is the first report of the isolation of M. bovigenitalium and U. diversum in Thailand.
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