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Marassi,Carla Dray; Fonseca,Leila de Souza; Ristow,Paula; Ferreira,Rachel; Lilenbaum,Walter; Oelemann,Walter M.R.. |
Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) is a chronic enteritis in cattle caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map). In Brazil, few reports describe the isolation of the organism. The gold standard test for Map is its isolation from tissues or feces. Moreover, bacterial growth is slow and test results are available only after three to five months of incubation Furthermore, shedding of bacilli at levels detectable by fecal culture is irregular and does not occur during the early stages of infection, which compromises the sensitivity of this methodology. The most common immunological tests to identify Map infection are complement fixation test (CFT), agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) and enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA). In Brazil,... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Paratuberculosis; Cattle; ELISA; Serology; Diagnosis. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822005000200004 |
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Lilenbaum,Walter; Kremer,Frederico; Ristow,Paula; Dellagostin,Odir; Bourhy,Pascale; Hartskeerl,Rudy; Vasconcellos,Silvio. |
Two Leptospira sp. isolates were obtained by the first time from goats in Brazil and characterized by sequencing rrs, rpoB and secY genes, PFGE and typing with monoclonal antibodies. Both isolates are identical and belong to Leptospira santarosai. Analysis of the rrs and the rpoB genes sequences revealed 100% identity between the goat isolates and the Bananal reference strain. When secY sequences of the two isolates were compared to each other, it was observed that they had identical sequences. However, when compared to that of the Bananal reference strain, there were 15 mismatches along the 549 bp secY sequence. In conclusion, molecular methods are increasingly useful for the characterization of leptospires and allowed to identify those isolates of... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Leptospira; Serogrouping; Sequencing; PFGE; Rrs. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822014000400050 |
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Lilenbaum,Walter; Ferreira,Rachel; Marassi,Carla Dray; Ristow,Paula; Oelemann,Walter Martins Roland; Fonseca,Leila de Souza. |
Forty-four cows from five herds infected with tuberculosis (TB) and without paratuberculosis (PTB), and 21 cows from a herd without either infection were studied. The cattle presented concordant results in both the skin test and gamma-interferon assay for TB and two commercial ELISAs for PTB. Animals were divided according to TB test results into Group A with 28 TB-infected animals, Group B with 16 TB-negative animals from infected herds, and Group C with 21 TB-negative cows from a tuberculosis-free herd (which were used as controls). Twenty of 28 animals from Group A (71.4%), 6/16 from Group B (37.5%) and none from Group C were reactive to PTB ELISAs, suggesting that these commercial kits were unable to distinguish between PTB and TB. It is proposed that... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Paratuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Mycobacterium bovis; Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822007000300016 |
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