RESUMO
Sixty-four pneumonic sheep lungs were examined for mycoplasmas. Eleven isolates were recovered and were identified on generally accepted criteria as mycoplasma. Four isolates were lost during storage and the remaining seven were divided on the basis of their colonial appearance and other biological properties into two groups.
Assuntos
Pulmão/microbiologia , Mycoplasma/isolamento & purificação , Doenças dos Ovinos/microbiologia , Animais , Meios de Cultura , Mycoplasma/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Mycoplasma/metabolismo , Pneumonia/microbiologia , Pneumonia/veterinária , Ovinos , SudãoRESUMO
Seven mycoplasma isolated from pneumonic sheep lungs were found to belong to two serologically unrelated groups. Isolates in one group reacted strongly with antisera to M arginini in the metabolic inhibition and growth inhibition tests. All isolates except one failed to react with antisera to M mycoides var capri or M mycoides var mycoides. The results of the present work support the previously reported division of the isolates into two groups on the basis of their biological properties.
