Clinicopathological and haematological study of experimentally infected goat kids with Mycoplasma capricolum subsp capricolum

Goat kids experimentally infected with Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. caprico lum showed anorexia, high fever, swollen-painful joints, lameness, dyspnea, depression, cellulitis and septicaemia. They exhibited anemia, leukocytosi s with neutrophilia at early stage and a leukopaenia at later stage of infe ction, increase in prothrombin time, thrombin time, activated partial throm boplastin time and fibrinogen, and decrease of antithrombin III. No pulmona ry changes of caprine pleuropneumonia were seen in the kids, but they had d iffuse interstitial pneumonia, congestion and oedema. Disseminated intravas cular coagulation was not found.