A Clinical Case of Severe Anemia in a Sheep Coinfected with Mycoplasma ovis and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemovis' in Hokkaido, Japan

Michihito TAGAWA; Toshihiko TAKEUCHI; Tetsuro FUJISAWA; Yasuhiro KONNO; Shinji YAMAMOTO; Kotaro MATSUMOTO; Naoaki YOKOYAMA; Hisashi INOKUMA

doi:10.1292/jvms.11-0296

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A Clinical Case of Severe Anemia in a Sheep Coinfected with Mycoplasma ovis and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemovis' in Hokkaido, Japan

Michihito TAGAWA, Toshihiko TAKEUCHI, Tetsuro FUJISAWA, Yasuhiro KONNO, Shinji YAMAMOTO, Kotaro MATSUMOTO, Naoaki YOKOYAMA, Hisashi INOKUMA

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Keywords: 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemovis', case report, Japan, Mycoplasma ovis, sheep

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Article ID: 11-0296

DOI https://doi.org/10.1292/jvms.11-0296

The final version of this article is now available: Vol. 74 (2012) , No. 1 p.99

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Abstract

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 'Candidatus 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 1 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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