Mycoplasmas in Swine

Dominiek Maes (Edited By) Dominiek Maes is full professor and head of the Unit of Porcine Health Management at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University Belgium. He is a specialist of the European College of Porcine Health Management. His main research area is on respiratory disease in pigs, with emphasis on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. He is a member of the International Organization of Mycoplasmology (IOM) and has been the chair of the porcine section of the International Research Programme on Comparative Mycoplasmology (IRPCM) within the IOM.Marina Sibila (Edited By) Marina Sibila is a researcher at Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA) since 2004. This research center, located in Bellaterra (Barcelona), is the animal health program of Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA). Her research line is focused on swine respiratory diseases, mainly Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae among other pathogens. During these years, she has worked to expand the knowledge on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae epidemiology, animal model development, diagnostic tools assessment and evaluation of disease control strategies.Maria Pieters (Edited By) Maria Pieters is a faculty member at the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the United States. Veterinarian by training, she has dedicated more than 15 years of research efforts to aid defining and developing areas of diagnostics, epidemiology, and control of swine Mycoplasma species, with special interest on d isease elimination. She is the principal investigator of the UMN Mycoplasma Research Laboratory and an active member of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology.

• 1: Overview of the general characteristics and classification of porcine Mycoplasma species 2: Diversity of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strains 3: Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae pathogenicity: the known and the unknown 4: Epidemiology of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections 5: Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae clinical signs and gross lung lesions, including monitoring 6: Immune responses against porcine Mycoplasma infections 7: Interactions of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae with other pathogens and economic impact 8: Diagnosis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection and associated diseases 9: General control measures against Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections 10: Antimicrobial treatment of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections 11: Vaccines and vaccination against Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae 12: Eradication of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae from pig herds 13: Mycoplasma hyorhinis and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae in pig herds 14: Mycoplasma suis infections in pigs