Facial paralysis in feedlot cattle associated with otitis caused by Mycoplasma bovis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper describes an outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis-associated bronchopneumonia and otitis clinically associated with facial paralysis in feedlot steers in Argentina. Three of sixty-one feedlot animals from the same pen developed unilateral facial paralysis primarily with ear dropping, droopy eyelids (eyelid ptosis), and head tilt. Postmortem exanimation revealed cranioventral consolidation of the lungs (bronchopneumonia) and the presence of abundant purulent exudate in the tympanic bulla (otitis). The affected lung had a nodular appearance. Histopathological examination of the middle and inner ear showed necrotizing, suppurative otitis, and bronchopneumonia with bronquiectasis compatible with M. bovis infection. Immunohistochemistry of the lung, and middle and inner ear revealed abundant M. bovis antigen. The ELISA tests revealed that the two animals showing facial paralysis had seroconverted for M. bovis. To our knowledge, these are the first reported cases of M. bovis otitis in Argentina. These findings should alert veterinarians and diagnosticians of the relevance of M. bovis as a cause of otitis and facial paralysis in cattle.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".