Experimental Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia: A Long Term Study on the Course of Infection and Pathology in a Flock of Goats Infected with Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae

Table 2 Gross and light microscopic characterization of pulmonary lesions in goats with thoracic pathology at necropsy (n = 14).

	Gross pathology				Light microscopy
Goat, group and no.	Consolidation	Pleural adhesions	Pleural fibrin deposits	Distribution of gross changes¹	Bronchitis/bronchiolitis	Alveolar exudate	Alveolar fibrosis	Septal/peribronchial fibrosis	Abscessation	Lymphoid cell cuffs at airways	Acute fibrinous pleuritis	Chronic fibrous pleuritis
A 130	+	-	-	Mf	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+
A 139	+	-	-	Mf	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+
A 142	+	+	-	Ext	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	-
A 145	+	-	-	Mf	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	-
A 188	+	+	-	Ext	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+
B 124	+	-	-	F	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	-
B 127	-	+	-	Ext	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+
B 129	+	+	+	Mf	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+
B 133	-	+	-	Ext	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+
B 134	+	+	-	Ext	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-
B 151	-	+	-	F	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+
B 160	+	-	-	F	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+
B 172	-	+	-	Mf	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	+
B 191	+	-	+	Ext	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+

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