Experimental infection of ducklings with Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma anatis

Abstract

Two groups of day-old ducklings were infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M anatis respectively by air sac inoculation. Clinical disease was not produced but air sacculitis was produced by both infections. M gallisepticum could be recovered readily from respiratory tissue 10 and 30 days after infections but RSA tests were negative. M anatis was not reisolated from these tissues or from the cloaca but a positive RSA test was observed on the serum of a few ducklings.