Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes in slaughter animals and bats of Togo (West Africa).
Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from the intestinal lymph nodes of 8 out of 342 apparently healthy slaughter animals at the municipal abattoir in Lome (Togo) and from the faeces of 3 out of 236 bats. Except two strains of serovar 4b isolated from bats, all the nine others belonged to serovar 1/2a. The positive findings of slaughter animals were made from the carcasses of 2 pigs, 5 little ruminants and 1 cattle. The findings are discussed in the light of present knowledge on the occurrence of L. monocytogenes in some species of animals and its implications for the human being.
D000003:Abattoirs; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000382:microbiology*; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D004199:Disease Vectors; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000382:microbiology; D013552:Swine / Q000382:microbiology*; D014037:Togo