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An outbreak of an infectious disease was reported in a private goat farm in Kannur district of Kerala. The main clinical symptoms observed were fever, nasal discharge, cough, respiratory distress and grunting. Out of the eight sera collected from the animals of the farm, five (62.5 per cent) had antimycoplasma antibodies when tested by the rapid plate agglutination test. The disease condition was diagnosed as mycoplasmosis on the basis of the results of the serological test