Vaccines for Bovine Mycoplasmosis Do They Work

Vaccines against mycoplasma diseases like contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
and contagious agalactia have been used for many years though they are rarely completely effective. In the early 1970s attempts were made to develop one for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) caused by Mycoplasma bovis and M dispar and early trials were encouraging before project was abandoned for lack of funding. However one of the biggest obstacles to the development of a vaccine against such diseases has been the lack of a reliable and reproducible animal model. […]