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The Pathogenomics of the Respiratory Mycoplasma bovis Strains Circulating in Cattle Around the Texas Panhandle, USA.
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) - 8 Feb 2025
Dudley Ethan P, Scott Matthew A, Kittana Hatem, Thompson Alexis C, Valeris-Chacin Robert
Abstract excerpt
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a major economic and animal welfare issue in the beef industry. Mycoplasma bovis is one of the main causal organisms, particularly in chronic cases. Due to the difficulty of isolating M. bovis from clinical isolates, there is a lack of information on the genetic diversity of this pathogen in the Texas panhandle region of the United States. Therefore, our objective was to...
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- Animals
- Cattle
- Mycoplasma bovis
- Texas
- Cattle Diseases
- Mycoplasma Infections
- Genetic Variation