Experimental infection of pregnant and lactating goats with Leptospira interrogans serovars hardjo and szwajizak.
Pathogenesis of 2 Leptospira serovars, hardjo and szwajizak, was studied in pregnant and lactating goats. Although clinical signs of leptospiral infection were minimal, cultural isolations were made from the mammary gland of 2 goats and the kidney of 1 goat inoculated with serovar hardjo (C846). The isolations were made only on solid bovine albumin polysorbate-80 medium supplemented either with rabbit serum or sodium pyruvate. Cultural isolations of serovar szwajizak were made from kidney, liver, brain, urine, and mammary gland samples of 1 goat and the liver and kidney samples of its kids. These isolations were made in only the solid bovine albumin polysorbate-80 medium which had been supplemented with normal goat serum.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006041:Goats; D007668:Kidney / Q000382:microbiology; D007774:Lactation; D007921:Leptospira interrogans / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008099:Liver / Q000382:microbiology; D008321:Mammary Glands, Animal / Q000382:microbiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014895:Weil Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology