Infection expérimentale de la chèvre par les souches de mycoplasme de type F.38 (pleuropneumonie contagieuse caprine)

Summary The contagious pleuropneumonia syndrome is easily reproduced in goats, using cultures and lung lesion homogeneizate, given by endobronchial inoculation and by aerosol. The latter route causes hyperacure evolution, with septicaemia, multiple and disseminated lesions and death within three days following the onset of clinical signs. The same strains seem to be poorly pathogenic toward chick embryos inoculated in the yolk-sac. The nature of Mycoplasma capripneumoniae pathogenicity remains undetermined.