This team aims at advancing and disseminating knowledge on all aspects of swine mycoplasmas, and to encourage individual and collaborative studies, including the effective exchange of scientific information, to reach this goal. The current team objectives include:
Typing of swine mycoplasma field strains & look for measures that correlate with in vivo virulence
Study mechanisms of pathogenesis of M. hyopneumoniae
Perform omic studies of porcine mycoplasmas
Investigate and develop better diagnostic tests for M. hyopneumoniae
Develop more efficient vaccines for M. hyopneumoniae that can be used in farms
Study porcine Mycoplasmas different from M. hyopneumoniae