found: University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine web site, Jan. 12, 2009(Contagious agalactia (CA) of sheep and goats is an infectious disease of males and females of these species characterized by fever, malaise, and septicemia followed by arthritis, keratoconjunctivitis, and in the females, mastitis and agalactia; the etiologic agent of the classical disease is Mycoplasma agalactiae, which, since its isolation in 1923, has been considered to be the main cause of the disease. However, it has become evident that the "contagious agalactia" syndrome (especially in goats) can also be caused by several other mycoplasmas, notably M. capricolum capricolum and M. putrefasciens, M. mycoides capri, and the "large colony" or LC type of M. mycoides mycoides. Some have questioned limiting the term "contagious agalactia" to the disease caused by M. agalactiae)
