What rhymes with mycoplasma ovipneumoniae?
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Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is a species of Mycoplasma bacteria that most commonly inhabits and affects ovine animals. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is a respiratory pathogen of domestic sheep, domestic goats, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats that can both cause primary atypical pneumonia and also predispose to secondary pneumonia with other agents, including Mannheimia haemolytica. There are several mechanisms involved in the pathogenicity of M.Ovipneumoniae including; altering macrophage activity, adhering to the ruminants ciliated epitheluim via its polysaccharide capsule, inducing the production of autoantibiodies to cilary antigens and suppressive activity on lymphocytes, all of which are important factors that contribute to the disease in sheep and other small ruminants. The bacterium also has the ability to act as a prediposing factor for other bacterial and viral infections. Populations of M.ovipneumoniae of infected sheep are often found to have varying strains of the bacterium within one animal, but the different strains vary in virulence. The bacterium can be found within the lungs, trachea, and nasal cavity of small ruminants. However, the detection of M.ovipneumoniae can be otained by bacteriologic culture, molecular dignosistics, and serology, allowing for the bacterium to be grown in culture, species specific DNA sequences, and specific antibiodies identified, respectivitly.

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