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The molecular epidemiology of four outbreaks of porcine pasteurellosis

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Blackall, P.J., Fegan, N., Pahoff, J.L., Storie, G.J., McIntosh, G.B., Cameron, R.D.A., O'Boyle, D., Frost, A.J., Bara, M.R., Marr, G. and Holder, J. (2000) The molecular epidemiology of four outbreaks of porcine pasteurellosis. Veterinary Microbiology, 72 (1-2). pp. 111-120.

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Article Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1135(99)00192-3

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Abstract

Biochemical profiles, restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) and ribotyping were used to investigate a total of 38 Pasteurella multocida isolates from four separate outbreaks of pasteurellosis in Australian piggeries. Six isolates were obtained from Outbreak 1, 16 from Outbreak 2 and eight each from outbreaks 3 and 4. Outbreaks 1 and 2 were cases of pneumonic pasteurellosis while outbreaks 3 and 4 involved systemic pasteurellosis. Biochemical characterisation established that a number of different types of P. multocida were present in outbreaks 1 and 3 while outbreaks 2 and 4 were associated with a single type of P. multocida. Outbreaks 1 and 3 yielded isolates of P. multocida that belonged to the subspecies multocida and gallicida, with the subspecies multocida isolates being identified as biovar 3 (6 in total) or 12 (1 in total) and the subspecies gallicida isolates (7 in total) being identified as biovar 8. All 24 isolates from outbreaks 2 and 4 belonged to the subspecies multocida and were all biovar 3. REA and ribotyping showed that, in outbreaks 1 and 3, there were three different types of P. multocida in each outbreak with no common strains between the outbreaks. The molecular methods showed that only a single strain of P. multocida was associated with outbreaks 2 and 4, although the outbreaks were associated with strains that differed in REA profiles but shared a ribotype profile. This study has shown that both, systemic and pneumonic pasteurellosis can be associated with either a single strain or multiple strains of P. multocida. The results also indicate that the molecular typing methods of REA and ribotyping are superior to biochemical characterisation for epidemiological investigation of porcine pasteurellosis

Item Type:Article
Corporate Creators:Animal Science
Additional Information:© Elsevier
Keywords:Pasteurella multocida; Genotypic characterisation; Molecular epidemiology
Subjects:Veterinary medicine > Veterinary epidemiology. Epizootiology
Animal culture > Swine
Live Archive:26 Mar 2004
Last Modified:03 Sep 2021 16:47

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