“…The causative organism, M. gallisepticum, is highly sensitive to quinolones, tetracyclines, macrolides, and tiamulin (Arzey & Arzey, 1992;Yang et al 2016;Yang, Sun, Zhao, Wang, & Wang, 2015). Tiamulin, a pleuromutilin derivative, is an ideal anti-mycoplasmal drug, due to its distinct advantages such as relatively high cure rate, very low "minimum inhibitory concentration" (MIC), least resistance development, and shorter withdrawal period (Islam, Klein, & Burch, 2009;Xia et al, 2016), and its use is approved in India.…”