Use of systemic antibiotics with or without topical nasal treatments to clear Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae from lambs

Abstract

Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (M. ovipneumoniae) is often carried asymptomatically in the nasal passages of domestic small ru­minants worldwide and is commonly associated with chronic respiratory disease. Currently, no antibiotics are labeled for treatment of this bacterium in domestic sheep in the United States. The efficacy of systemic antibiotics with or without na­sal flush treatments to clear M. ovipneumoniae in lambs was as­sessed in this study.