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  • Title: Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in pigs immunosuppressed by thymectomy and treatment with antithymocyte serum.
    Author: Tajima M, Yagihashi T, Nunoya T, Takeuchi A, Ohashi F.
    Journal: Am J Vet Res; 1984 Oct; 45(10):1928-32. PubMed ID: 6333838.
    Abstract:
    The effect of immunosuppression on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection was evaluated by comparing data from infected, thymectomized, and antithymocyte serum-treated pigs (group 1) with data from infected (group 2) and noninfected (group 3) healthy pigs. After groups 1 and 2 pigs were inoculated intranasally with M hyopneumoniae, mycoplasmas tended to multiply slightly more in the lungs and bronchial lymph nodes of group 1 pigs than that of group 2 pigs. Organisms were also isolated from the spleen of 1 of 3 group 1 pigs. Pneumonia developed in group 2 pigs and was characterized by massive peribronchial, peribronchiolar, and perivascular lymphoid hyperplasia and exudate consisting mainly of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the alveoli and lumina of the bronchioles and bronchi. In group 1 pigs, perivascular and peribronchiolar cuffings by lymphocytes were less prominent, and the extent of intraluminal exudate was severe and widespread. Bronchial lymph nodes from group 2 pigs had marked hyperplasia of germinal centers and paracortical areas. In group 1 pigs, germinal centers were hyperplastic, whereas in the paracortical areas, depletion of lymphocytes was evident. Seemingly, cell-mediated immune mechanisms are important in the development of pneumonic lesions in enzootic pneumonia of pigs.
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