Abstract
Transmission electron microscopy of articular cartilage in Mycoplasma pulmonis-infected neonatal rats revealed the presence of mycoplasmas within the matrix and lacunae. The mycoplasmas appeared to have a tropism for the chondrocytes and induced lysis of both the chondrocytes and matrix of the cartilage.
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