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Provedor de dados: | 65
País: | Brazil
Título: | Detection of Lawsonia intracellularis fecal shedding in dogs in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Autores: | Silva,Rodrigo Otávio Silveira; Gabardo,Michelle de Paula; Oliveira,Juliana Saes Vilaça de; Lobato,Francisco Carlos Faria; Guedes,Roberto Maurício Carvalho.
Data: | 2015-09-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Lawsonia intracellularis; Canine; Proliferative enteropathy; Diarrhea.
Resumo: | Lawsonia intracellularisis an obligate intracellular bacterium that is responsible for proliferative enteropathy, an enteric disease endemic in swine and common in foals. However, few studies have investigated this disease in dogs, and there are no reports of dogs infected with L. intracellularisin Latin America. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fecal shedding of L. intracellularisin diarrheic and non-diarrheic dogs in Minas Gerais, Brazil. A total of 58 dogs, 18 apparently healthy and 40 diarrheic, were examined in this study. DNA extracted from feces was analyzed using a nested PCR reaction to detect L. intracellularis.Three out of 40 (7.5%) diarrheic samples, all from 3-month-old puppies, were positive for L. intracellularis. These results highlight the need for additional studies to examine the role of this pathogen as a possible cause of enteric disease in dogs
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782015000901619
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Relação: | 10.1590/0103-8478cr20141533
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciência Rural  v.45 n.9 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess