An outbreak of respiratory disease at a farmed cervid facility resulted in isolation and identification of Mycoplasma bovis in four affected white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns. Microscopically, pulmonary lesions similar to those associated with M. bovis infections in calves, including lymphoplasma-cytic peribronchiolar cuffing and caseonecrotic bronchiectasis, were present. Arcanobacterium pyogenes was recovered from lung tissue as well. This report indicates that M. bovis can be associated with respiratory disease in white-tailed deer.
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1 April 2004
Pulmonary Mycoplasmosis in Farmed White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
N. W. Dyer,
D. F. Krogh,
L. P. Schaan
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 40 • No. 2
April 2004
Vol. 40 • No. 2
April 2004
cervid
Mycoplasma bovis
Odocoileus virginianus
pneumonia
respiratory disease
white-tailed deer