FREY MYCOPLASMA BROTH BASE

Description

Poultry flocks are susceptible to respiratory infections from a variety of agents, including Mycoplasmas. The common types of infections from Mycoplasma are chronic respiratory diseases, air sacculitis, sinusitis and synovitis. In many cases, however the infection may be identified only through serological and culture methods. Mycoplasmas require very complex media that complicates identification procedures in laboratory diagnosis. Frey et al formulated Mycoplasma Broth with horse serum for the cultivation of avian Mycoplasma. Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Mycoplasma synoviae, Mycoplasma meleagridis are few of the Mycoplasma species which cause infections in birds.