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Provedor de dados: | 58
País: | Brazil
Título: | Detection of toxins A/B and isolation of Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens from dogs in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Autores: | Silva,Rodrigo Otávio Silveira; Santos,Renata Lara Resende; Pires,Prhiscylla Sadanã; Pereira,Luiz Carlos; Pereira,Silvia Trindade; Duarte,Marina Carvalho; Assis,Ronnie Antunes de; Lobato,Francisco Carlos Faria.
Data: | 2013-01-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Nosocomial diarrhea; Small animals; Colitis; Enteritis; Canine.
Resumo: | The objective of this study was to detect C. difficileA/B toxins and to isolate strains of C. perfringensand C. difficile from diarrheic and non-diarrheic dogs in Brazil. Stool samples were collected from 57 dogs, 35 of which were apparently healthy, and 22 of which were diarrheic. C. difficileA/B toxins were detected by ELISA, and C. perfringensand C. difficilewere identified by multiplex PCR. C. difficileA/B toxins were detected in 21 samples (36.8%). Of these, 16 (76.2%) were from diarrheic dogs, and five (23.8%) were from non-diarrheic dogs. Twelve C. difficile strains (21.1%) were isolated, of which ten were A+B+and two were A-B-. All non-toxigenic strains were isolated from non-diarrheic animals. The binary toxin gene cdtBwas found in one strain, which was A+B+and was derived from a non-diarrheic dog. C. perfringensstrains were isolated from 40 samples (70.2%). Of these, 18 (45%) were from the diarrheic group, and 22 (55%) belonged to the non-diarrheic group. All isolates were classified as C. perfringenstype A and there was an association between the detection of the cpegene and the presence of diarrhea. Interestingly, ten strains (25%) were positive for the presence of the cpb2gene. The high rate of detection of the A/B toxins in non-diarrheic dogs suggests the occurrence of subclinical disease in dogs or carriage of its toxins without disease. More studies are needed to elucidate the epidemiology of C. difficileand C. perfringensin dogs and to better our understanding of C. difficileas a zoonotic agent. This is the first study to report the binary toxin gene in C. difficilestrains isolated from dogs in Brazil.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822013000100019
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1517-83822013005000008
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.44 n.1 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess