Causes of Pneumonia Epizootics among Bighorn Sheep, Western United States, 2008–2010

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 406 - 414
• Main Authors: Besser, Thomas E., Highland, Margaret, Baker, Katherine, Cassirer, E. Frances, Anderson, Neil J., Ramsey, Jennifer M., Mansfield, Kristin, Bruning, Darren L., Wolff, Peregrine, Smith, Joshua B., Jenks, Jonathan A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.03.2012; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: animal diseases; animal pathogenic bacteria; Animals; bacteria; Bacterial pneumonia; chemistry; Development and progression; disease detection; disease outbreaks; disease prevalence; disease severity; DNA, Bacterial; DNA, Bacterial - chemistry; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics; epidemiology; etiology; genetics; Health aspects; herds; lungs; Mannheimia haemolytica; Mannheimia haemolytica - genetics; microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae; Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae - genetics; Ovis canadensis; Pasteurella multocida; Pasteurella multocida - genetics; pathogen identification; Phylogeny; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Bacterial; Pneumonia, Bacterial - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Bacterial - etiology; Pneumonia, Bacterial - veterinary; pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; ribosomal spacer DNA; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Sheep; sheep diseases; Sheep Diseases - epidemiology; Sheep Diseases - microbiology; Sheep, Bighorn; Sheep, Bighorn - microbiology; United States; United States - epidemiology; veterinary; Western United States; United States; Montana; California; Western United States

Epizootic pneumonia of bighorn sheep is a devastating disease of uncertain etiology. To help clarify the etiology, we used culture and culture-independent methods to compare the prevalence of the bacterial respiratory pathogens Mannheimia haemolytica, Bibersteinia trehalosi, Pasteurella multocida, a...