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Fatal transmission of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia to an Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx).
Veterinary microbiology - 17 Sept 2014
Chaber A L, Lignereux L, Al Qassimi M, Saegerman C, Manso-Silván L, Dupuy V, Thiaucourt F
Abstract excerpt
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is an infectious respiratory disease mainly affecting domestic goats. As CCPP has never been documented in grazing antelopes (subfamily hippotraginae), they were not considered susceptible. Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (Mccp) was isolated from pleural liquid collected during the necropsy of a severely emaciated Arabian oryx with mild nasal discharge....
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