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In Ontario the Ontario Vet College takes most samples from vets and can do a full bacterial culture or a simple mycoplasma culture and results take 5 business days. Typically they would recommend a duration of at least 10 days of tetracycline or doxycycline to avoid resistance of antibiotics...

Mycoplasma can spread like wildfire through a flock as well. Really hard to tell if its bacterial or viral unless tylosin or something that knocks out respiratory symptoms responds or a bacterial culture is done specifically. Tylosin here at the vet college is the antibiotic of choice for...

Mycoplasma IS a bacteria which responds to antibiotics...which viruses do not, however telling the difference between the 2 in a flock showing very similar symptoms is difficult. You can either try a few injections of tylosin to see if you get improvement or get a vet to take a bacterial swab...

Infectious bronchitis can be caused often by mycoplasma...specifically gallisepticum. It is extremely contagious as the bacteria (it is a bacteria not a virus...tylan is an antibiotic most effective against mycoplasma. Viruses are not effected by antibiotics.) is extremely small and can be...