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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Infectious Diseases
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1403682
This article is part of the Research Topic Wildlife-Domestic Animal Interface: Threat or Sentinel? View all 8 articles

MYCOPLASMA BOVIS-ASSOCIATED VERMINOUS PNEUMONIA IN ALPINE CHAMOIS (Rupicapra rupicapra)

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Michela Bullone Michela Bullone 1Sara Divari Sara Divari 1Alessandra Sereno Alessandra Sereno 1Bruno Bassano Bruno Bassano 2Daniela Gelmetti Daniela Gelmetti 3Lucia R. Gibelli Lucia R. Gibelli 3Paola Pregel Paola Pregel 1Enrico Bollo Enrico Bollo 1Frine Eleonora Scaglione Frine Eleonora Scaglione 1*
  • 1 Department of Veterinary Sciences, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
  • 2 Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso, Turin, Italy
  • 3 Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), Brescia, Italy

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    Pneumonia is a common disease affecting Alpine chamois. However, little is knownThere is little information concerning the etiological agents involved, however. We investigated whether Mycoplasma spp. infection occurs in Alpine chamois and describe the microscopic lesions associated with Mycoplasma-associated bronchopneumonia in this species. Lung tissues obtained from 45 chamois with gross evidence of pneumonia were analysedstudied. The histological lesions and the presence of lungworms within the lungs were evaluated blindly. The presence of Mycoplasma spp.was assessed by immunohistochemistry (M. bovis and M. mycoides subsp. mMycoides) and by endha formattato: Tipo di carattere: Non Corsivo PAGE \* Arabic \* MERGEFORMAT 4point PCR. M. bovis was detected by immunohistochemistry and confirmed by PCR and sequencing in 6/45 (13%) cases, while all lungs were negative for M. mycoides subsp. mMycoides. A significant association was found between the detection of M. bovis and the presence of severe lungworms infection in the examined lungs studied.We report for the first time M. bovis as a bacteria associated with verminous pneumonia in chamois.

    Keywords: Chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra, Lung, Mycoplasma bovis, Parasites, Pneumonia

    Received: 19 Mar 2024; Accepted: 09 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bullone, Divari, Sereno, Bassano, Gelmetti, Gibelli, Pregel, Bollo and Scaglione. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Frine Eleonora Scaglione, Department of Veterinary Sciences, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, 10124, Piedmont, Italy

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