
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Surman, PG 
T1  - Cytology of ?Pink-Eye" of Sheep Including A Reference to Trachoma of Man, by Employing Acridine Orange and Iodine Stains, and Isolation of Mycoplasma Agents From Infected Sheep Eyes
JF  - Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
JO  - Aust. Jnl. Of Bio. Sci.
Y1  - 1968
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
SP  - 447
EP  - 468
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9680447 
N2  - Numerous forms of a pleomorphic microorganism were observed associated with the cytoplasm of epithelial cells in conjunctival smears from sheep with pink-eye when stained by the Giemsa method. The microorganism was coccobacillary in shape during the acute stage of infection, and stained purplish blue. Various peripheral forms, and dispersed, crescent-, horseshoe-, and ring-shaped figures were present in post-acute smears; all these pleomorphic forms stained blue. Peripheral forms were filaments, blebs, stalked and club-shaped figures, and ring forms. Intracytoplasmic red spherical bodies were the characteristic entity in the epithelial cells of "normal"t sheep smears. The developmental forms of the pink-eye and trachoma agents were morphologically different. 
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