Sudden death syndrome in adult cows associated with Clostridium perfringens type E.
Clostridium perfringens type E is considered a rare toxinotype and an infrequent cause of enterotoxemia of lambs, calves, and rabbits. Until now, only cases of young animal of C. perfringens type E bovine enterotoxemia, characterized by hemorrhagic enteritis and sudden death, have been reported. The present report details the genotypic characterization of C. perfringens type E isolates obtained from intestinal samples of adult cattle during an outbreak of enterotoxemia in Argentina. The sequences of several housekeeping genes of these isolates were analyzed and compared with those obtained from calves in North America showing a clonal unique lineage.
Instituto de Patobiología, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Calle Las Cabañas y Los Reseros s/n, Casilla de Correo 25 (1712), Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
L M
LM
Redondo
M
M
Farber
A
A
Venzano
B H
BH
Jost
Y R
YR
Parma
M E
ME
Fernandez-Miyakawa
D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003016:Clostridium perfringens / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D004767:Enterotoxemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013577:Syndrome; D037521:Virulence Factors / Q000235:genetics
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D037521:Virulence Factors