title: Characterisation of Yersinia species isolated from a kennel and from cattle and pig farms.
abstract: Between April 1984 and November 1986, 126 faeces samples were collected from puppies and bitches in a kennel and examined for Yersinia species; 45 (35.7 per cent) of them were positive. Thirty-eight isolates were Y enterocolitica, five were Y frederiksenii and two were Y intermedia. Twenty-one of the Y enterocolitica isolates belonged to serogroup 0:3 and 17 of these were L-sorbose negative; all these isolates were from puppies. One strain of Y frederiksenii and all the L-sorbose-negative Y enterocolitica serogroup 0:3 isolates were resistant to antimicrobial agents and showed four different patterns of resistance (ampicillin, cephalothin and tetracycline; ampicillin, cephalothin, streptomycin and tetracycline; ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, streptomycin and sulfathiazole; and ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, streptomycin, sulfathiazole and tetracycline. In January 1986, investigations were conducted on a cattle farm and a pig farm close to the kennel. Of 19 bovine faeces samples 11 (57.8 per cent) were positive for Yersinia species; eight yielded Y enterocolitica and four yielded Y frederiksenii. None of the Y enterocolitica isolates belonged to serogroup 0:3. Of 20 porcine faeces samples eight (40 per cent) were positive for Yersinia species; all eight yielded Y enterocolitica and four also yielded Y pseudotuberculosis. Two of the isolates of Y frederiksenii and two of the isolates of Y enterocolitica from the farms had the following resistance patterns: ampicillin, cephalothin and streptomycin; ampicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline; ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, streptomycin, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole and tetracycline; and ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, streptomycin, sulphatiazole, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole and tetracycline.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Batteriologia e Micologia Medica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fantasia
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mingrone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Boscato
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crotti
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002417:Cattle / Q000382:microbiology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D004285:Dogs / Q000382:microbiology*; D004751:Enteritis / Q000662:veterinary; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D013552:Swine / Q000382:microbiology*; D015007:Yersinia / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000662:veterinary