Experimental Study of the Potential Role of Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae in the Diarrhoeic Syndrome of Lambs

Pathogens

NataliaG. C. Vasileiou¹  Nikolaos Papadopoulos²  Emmanouil Karavanis²  CharalambiaK. Michael³  AngelikiI. Katsafadou³  EleniI. Katsarou³  LabriniV. Athanasiou³  Charalambos Billinis³  GeorgeC. Fthenakis³  KaterinaS. Ioannidi³  DimitrisC. Chatzopoulos³  VasiaS. Mavrogianni³  Afroditi Sbiraki⁴ 

[1] Faculty of Animal Science, University of Thessaly, 41110 Larissa, Greece;Histopathology Laboratory, 3rd Veterinary Hospital of Greek Army, 57000 Thessaloniki, Greece;Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly, 43100 Karditsa, Greece;Veterinary Laboratory of Halkida, Hellenic State Veterinary Service, 34150 Halkida, Greece;

关键词: diarrhoea;    diarrhoeic syndrome;    ewe;    intestine;    lamb;    liver;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pathogens10020113

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The objectives of this experimental work were the evaluation of the potential role of Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae in diarrhoeic syndrome in lambs and the investigation of facets of the pathogenesis of the infection. In total, 12 lambs were challenged orally on the first day of life, with a S. enterica subsp. diarizonae isolate from a clinical case of diarrhoeic syndrome. Sequential blood, faecal and buccal samples were collected from lambs and faecal and milk samples were taken from their dams. Lambs were euthanised 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 14 and 21 days after challenge. Samples were processed for recovery of the challenge organism; they were also subjected to examination by PCR for detection of the invA gene. Tissue samples from lambs were also examined as above and histopathologically. S. enterica subsp. diarizonae was recovered from faecal samples of all lambs, in total, from 45/77 samples (median duration: 2.4 days post-inoculation). It was also recovered from buccal samples (10/77) from seven lambs (median duration: 0.8 days), and from tissue samples (small intestine, abomasum, liver, gallbladder) of nine lambs. It was recovered from two consecutive milk samples from the same ewe, but not from any faecal sample from ewes. The invA gene was detected in samples from all lambs (median duration: 5.5 days in faecal and 1.3 days in buccal samples), as well as in milk samples from three ewes. Histopathological findings included abomasitis with subepithelial presence of eosinophils, lymphocytes and plasma cells, consistently observed in all lambs. In the small intestine, salient lesions initially included distension and oedema of intestinal villi, leucocytic infiltration and hyperplasia of lymphoid nodules with apparent germinal centres; this was followed at later stages by atrophy and/or degeneration of the lymphoid tissue of the intestine with marked subepithelial infiltration of lymphocytes, plasma cells and eosinophils.

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