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Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 1594 West North Temple, Suite 2110, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, USA.
J Wildl Dis. 2021 Apr 1;57(2):447-452. doi: 10.7589/JWD-D-20-00098.
A 2013 outbreak of respiratory disease in bighorn sheep from California's Mojave Desert metapopulation caused high mortality in at least one population. Subsequent PCR and strain-typing indicate widespread infection of a single strain of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae throughout this region. Serosurvey of archived samples showed that some populations have had antibodies to M. ovipneumoniae since at least 1986, although pre-2013 strain-type data are unavailable.
2013 年,加利福尼亚莫哈韦沙漠的布氏绵羊局地种群爆发了呼吸道疾病,导致至少一个种群的死亡率很高。随后的 PCR 和菌株分型表明,整个地区广泛感染了单一株绵羊肺炎支原体。对存档样本的血清学调查显示,自 1986 年以来,一些种群就已经有了针对绵羊肺炎支原体的抗体,尽管 2013 年之前的菌株类型数据尚未可知。