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Multiplex PCR of Avian Pathogenic Mycoplasmas

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PCR Detection of Microbial Pathogens

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Abstract

More than 20 mycoplasma species have been isolated and characterized from avian sources (1). Only four avian mycoplasmas species are known to cause economic losses in commercial poultry production. Mycoplasma gallisepticum (Mg) infection commonly causes chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys (2), M. synoviae (Ms) infection most frequently occurs as a subclinical upper respiratory infection and synovitis in chickens and turkeys (3), M. iowae (Mi) causes decrease in hatchability and high embryo mortality in turkeys (4), and M. meleagridis (Mm) is the cause of an egg-transmitted disease of turkeys in which the primary lesion is an airsacculitis in the progeny, which leads to lower hatchability and skeletal abnormalities in young turkeys (5).

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  1. Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

    Mazhar I. Khan

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  1. Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine (BgVV), Jena, Germany

    Konrad Sachse (Dr. Rer. Nat.) (Dr. Rer. Nat.)

  2. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Khan, M.I. (2003). Multiplex PCR of Avian Pathogenic Mycoplasmas. In: Sachse, K., Frey, J. (eds) PCR Detection of Microbial Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 216. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-344-5:223

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