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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 74, Issue 1, Pages 99-102Publisher
JAPAN SOC VET SCI
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.11-0296
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'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemovis'; case report; Japan; Mycoplasma ovis; sheep
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23405041] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A 2-year-old East Friesian sheep imported from Australia exhibited severe anemia after contagious pustular dermatitis in Hokkaido, Japan. Hemoplasma infection was confirmed in blood smears. Both Mycoplasma ovis and 'Candidants Mycoplasma haemovis' were detected by PCR and sequence analyses. In the epidemiological analysis, dual pathogens were detected in 6 of 12 (50.0%) sheep imported from Australia with the infected ewe at the same time, 1 of 5 (20.0%) sheep introduced from a domestic farm in Hokkaido, and in I of 16 (6.3%) sheep from an epidemiologically unrelated ranch. It is the first clinical case of sheep to confirm coinfection of these pathogens in Japan.
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