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Treatment of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia
(1981) Muthomi, E.; Rurangirwa, F.R.; Masiga, W.N.; Muriu, D.N.; Mulira, G.; Kagumba, M; Nandokha, E.; Kenya Agricultural Research Institute; Veterinary Research Department
A combination of dihydrostreptomycin sulphate (250 mg/ml) and penicillin G procaine (200,000 iu/ml) was used to treat contagious caprine pleuropneumonia caused by F38 strain of mycoplasma. A single dose of either 20, 30, 40 or 50 mg/kg body weight of the dihydrostreptomycin sulphate led to the recovery of the treated goats. The recovered goats did not transmit CCPP to susceptible goats housed with them for 2 months. The goats which recovered were found to be solidly immune to an in-contact challenge in which all the control goats died of CCPP. The treated and recovered goats were found not to be carriers of the organism.