INTERACTION OF M. HYOPNEUMONIAE AND CAR-BACILLUS IN PORCINE ENZOOTIC PNEUMONIA

摘要

Porcine Enzootic pneumonia (EP) caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mh) occurs worldwide, being one of the main diseases causing important economical losses in intensive systems as well as outdoor (4). It is well know, that secondary bacterial infections can influence on the severity of the respiratory disease in pigs (9,10). xCAR-bacillus is an unclassified, extracelullar, gram negative, gliding bacterium that was first reported in an aging rat colony. Similar bacteria have been described colonizing the respiratory epithelium of other laboratory species and domestic species as goats, lambs, pigs associated with Enzootic Pneumonia EP (3,6,7).