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Listeria monocytogenes in horses in Iceland
- Source :
- The Veterinary record. 155(15)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Twenty isolates of Listeria monocytogenes associated with five confirmed and four suspected incidents of listeriosis in horses in Iceland were characterised by serotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and ribotyping. Semiquantitative estimates of the numbers of L monocytogenes were made on faeces from horses with clinical signs of listeriosis and on grass silage fed to them. Large numbers of L monocytogenes were often found in the faeces of horses with severe signs of disease. The 20 isolates could be divided into six genotypes, each incident involving only one genotype. One serovar 1/2a genotype was associated with three confirmed incidents of listeriosis in 1991, 1993 and 1997. In one incident, the same genotype was isolated from the organs of a horse with listeriosis and from the spoiled grass silage fed to it.
- Subjects :
- Serotype
Genotype
Silage
Colony Count, Microbial
Iceland
Food Contamination
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Ribotyping
Microbiology
Feces
Listeria monocytogenes
medicine
Animals
Listeriosis
Horses
Serotyping
Phylogeny
General Veterinary
Horse
General Medicine
Animal Feed
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Horse Diseases
Food contaminant
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00424900
- Volume :
- 155
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Veterinary record
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....caa02174040f5b1635420a1d12634bb7