[Experimental infection in goats caused by mycoplasma strain F.38 (contagious caprine pleuropneumonia)]

The contagious pleuropneumonia syndrome is easily reproduced in goats, using cultures and lung lesion homogeneizate, given by endobronchial inoculation and by aerosol. The latter route causes hyperacure evolution, with septicaemia, multiple and disseminated lesions and death within three days following the onset of clinical signs. The same strains seem to be poorly pathogenic toward chick embryos inoculated in the yolk-sac. The nature of Mycoplasma capripneumoniae pathogenicity remains undetermined.