Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia: The Challenging Transboundary Disease of Goats

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is a disease with high morbidity (80-100%) and mortality (60-80%) rates. Rapid diagnosis of this devastating disease is essential for its immediate containment. Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (formerly Mycoplasma biotype F-38), a member of the family Mycoplasmataceae, is the cause of the contagious caprine pleuropneumonia. CCPP causes major economic losses to goat production in at least 30 African and Asian countries in containing a total goat population of more than 300 million. Direct costs of CCPP are high mortality rates, reduced milk and meat production, treatment and control costs. While indirect costs is trade restrictions. CCPP is thought to be a major threat to the goat farms especially in the developing countries whereas the disease is pandemic (Africa, the Middle East and Asia)