Table. Timeline of natural infection of veterinarian with Mycoplasma lipofaciens (strain ML64) from infected poults*.
| Finding | Day |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1† | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Isolation | – | M. l. | M. l. | M. l. | M. l. | – | – | – |
| PCR result‡ | – | ND | ND | ND | ND | + | – | – |
| Clinical signs | None | None | None | Throat pain, slight rhinitis | Slight rhinitis, nasal pain | None | None | None |
*–, negative; M.l., Mycoplasma lipofaciens (identified by immunobinding assay); ND, not done; +, positive. †Hatching of infected poults and demonstration of aerosol transmission among poults. ‡Detection of mycoplasma DNA per Lierz et al. (5).