author(s)
K Manimaran, S Balakrishnan, A Sangeetha, M Dhanalakshmi, K Karthik, J Selvaraj and T Sivakumar

abstract
Goat farming is one of the enterprise which has been practiced by a large section of human population specially in developing world and it also plays an immensely important role in employment generation, capital storage and improving house hold nutrition. The goat population in our country is frequently exposed to ravages of infectious diseases. Pneumonia has been noticed as one of the most frequently encountered condition and is responsible for around 28.7% mortality. Amongst various infections, mycoplasmosis is one of the most dreaded diseases of goats. Mycoplasma causes a number of important disease viz., CBPP, CCPP, CRD, arthritis, contagious agalactiae and mastitis in livestock and poultry. The present study was undertaken to detect the caprine mycoplasma infection in Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu from the tissue materials viz., lungs, lymph nodes, spleen and liver from the clinically suspected goats. All the tissue materials were subjected to isolation and PCR assay with Mycoplasma group specific primers. The findings indicate that the PCR assay is very simple and useful method for detecting the mycoplasma infection directly from the tissue materials in a very short span.