Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Treatment

Methods of treating the disease.

Treatment
Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (SC-type) is susceptible to a variety of antimicrobials, including streptomycin, oxytetracycline, and chloramphenicol. However, antimicrobial therapy may only serve to slow the progression of the disease or may even in some cases favor the formation of sequestra which forms after a section of lung tissue is cut off from blood supply (coagulative necrosis). The bacterial organisms may exist in this area which is not served by blood supply. As a result, the blood cannot carry the antimicrobial agent to the bacteria to destroy it. It has been shown that M. mycoides mycoides (SC-type) can survive within these sequestra for months or possibly longer

Vaccination
A modified live vaccine is available for use in enzootic areas. A major drawback of this vaccine is that it generates an unpredictable local reaction in the animal. For this reason it is often given in the tail tip, which may become necrotic (cells die) and slough. Immunity subsequent to vaccination is generally good and lasts at least 12 months. The CBPP vaccine is often given in combination with the vaccine for rinderpest.