Molecular Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Mycoplasma Bovis
in Bovine Calves
Ali Raza1, Riaz Ahmed Gul1, Khalid Mehmood1*,
Riaz Hussain2, Kashif Iqbal3, Abdul Sameed
Saher1, Muhammad Taslim Ghori1, Sadaqat Ali1,
Muhammad Altaf1, Amir Iftikhar Malik1,
Muhammad Zahid1, Dalia Fouad4 and Kun Li5*
1Department
of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal
Sciences, The Islamia University Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan; 2Department
of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia
University Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan; 3Department of
Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia
University Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan; 4Department of
Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box 22452,
Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia; 5Institute of Traditional
Chinese Veterinary Medicine & MOE Joint International Research
Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
*Corresponding author:
khalid.mehmood@iub.edu.pk;
lk3005@njau.edu.cn
Abstract
Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) is one of the important pathogens
of cattle, which have been detected from pneumonic lungs of
dairy cattle especially calves. M. bovis is main reason for
morbidity and mortality in dairy calves because itis overlooked due to
its late detection. It is considered that some typical clinical ailments,
postmortem and microscopic lesions are useful for the diagnosis of disease but
molecular confirmation through PCR is more reliable technique. The present study
was conducted for detection and phylogenetic analysis ofM. bovis induced mortality in bovine calves. A total of 193 lung and pleural fluid samples (bovine
calves) were collected from slaughterhouses and private farms in Bahawalpur
region. The DNA was extracted from samples by using DNA extraction kit. The
samples were analyzed by PCR using M. bovis-specific primers having a
length of 270bp. The PCR results showed that M. bovis was detected in 16(8.29%) isolates, which included 14(7.90%) lung tissues and 2(12.50%) pleural fluid samples. The season-wise positive samples were 12.12% in winter,
10.34% in spring and 2.89% in summer. The sequences
were submitted to NCBI under accession number allotted as PP738878-PP738885. The
BLAST was performed for sequence alignment by windows 7.1 software MEGA Muscle
37. The phylogenetic analysis showed the maximum and minimum identity of 97-100% among these
geographical obtained strains from local isolates. The reference strain PP738878
had 100% identity with Swiss strain AF003959.1 of M. bovis and other strains showed a minimum identity of
99% with Poland, Switzerland and Egypt. This is the first study of the molecular
detection and phylogenetic analysis of M. bovis in
bovine calves in Pakistan.
To Cite This Article:
Raza A, Gul RA,
Mehmood K, Hussain R, Iqbal K, Saher AS, Ghori MT, Ali S, Altaf M, Malik AI,
Zahid M, Fouad D, Li K, 2024. Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of
Mycoplasma bovis in bovine calves. Pak Vet J, 44(3): 889-895.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2024.232