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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-11-7
pubmed:abstractText
Animal models of murine respiratory mycoplasmosis due to Mycoplasma pulmonis provide excellent opportunities to study respiratory disease due to an infectious agent. The purpose of the present study was to develop and characterize an aerosol model for the production of murine respiratory mycoplasmosis in mice. The exposure of mice for 30 min to aerosols generated with a DeVilbiss 45 nebulizer in a nose-only inhalation chamber consistently reproduced typical lesions. The chamber was operated with a nebulizer air flow of 5.3 liters/min at 5.0 lb/in and a diluting air flow of 20 liters/min, with the nebulizer containing 5 ml of a suspension of viable M. pulmonis organisms (a concentration between 6 X 10(5) to 6 X 10(10) CFU/ml). Infective aerosol particles of less than a 4.0-micron median aerodynamic diameter with a geometric standard deviation of approximately 2.0 reached the lungs and were evenly distributed among the different lung lobes. A minimum 1.5-log loss of viability in the M. pulmonis suspension was demonstrated. With the exception of the 50% lethal dose, all of the parameters previously established by intranasal inoculation could be examined with the aerosol model. The major advantages of the aerosol model were excellent reproducibility of exposure (both between different experiments and between animals in a given experiment), the avoidance of anesthetization, and the ability to immediately deposit the majority of the organisms in the lung. The only disadvantage was the requirement for large volumes of mycoplasmal cultures.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0019-9567
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
194-201
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Development of an aerosol model of murine respiratory mycoplasmosis in mice.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't