Upper respiratory tract detection of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae employing nasopharyngeal swabs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Flock-level prevalence and characterization of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is determined almost exclusively using nasal swabbing followed by molecular detection with either quantitative PCR or multi-locus sequence typing. However, the diagnostic performance and efficiency of swabbing the nasal passage compared to other anatomical locations has not been determined within sheep populations. The goal of this research was to assess the diagnostic capability of nasopharyngeal swabs in comparison to nasal swabs for the detection of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.

Results

Nasal and nasopharyngeal swabs were collected during a controlled exposure study of domestic sheep with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae. Both swab types were then analyzed via conventional and quantitative PCR. This da

SUBMITTER: Herndon DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11529185 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature