Evaluation of Mycobacterium avium strains virulence from porcine population of south Brazil / Avaliação da virulência de estirpes de Mycobacterium avium presentes na população de suínos no sul do Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

Given that the existence of molecularly different families of M. avium circulating in swine of the south area of Brazil has been proved, and that some doubts remain regarding the importance of the horizontal transmission as mechanism of maintenance of the disease, this work aimed to study the virulence of those strains, an important information for the improvement of the control methods. The strains emerged from a case-control study, when the RFLP molecular typification showed the existence of four families of M. avium (PIG-A, B, C and D). A strain representative of each family was inoculated by intra-peritoneal route in 48 hamsters with a dose of 30.000 C.F.U./animal. After 2, 13, 26 and 40 days post-infection, 12 inoculated hamsters of each family were anesthetized, euthanized and the bacteria were quantified in the liver, spleen and lung. The presence of the strains was verified in the blood and also histological exams were accomplished. The strains PIG-A, B, C and D developed granulomatous lesions in the liver and spleen in the four experimental times; they were disseminated by the linfo-haematic route, multiplying in liver, spleen and lung. In the four experimental times there was difference among the countings of C.F.U./g among the organs (T1: p<0,001; T2: p<0,001; T3: p<0,001 and T4: p<0,001) and that obtained of the spleen were always superiors to the one of the liver and lung. In the four experimental times there was difference among the countings of C.F.U./g among the ancestries (T1: p<0,001; T2: p<0,001; T3: p<0,001 and T4: p<0,001) and was possible to build the following order of decreasing virulence: PIG-B >PIG-A >PIG-D >PIG-C.

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virulence complexo mycobacterium avium swine virulência mycobacterium avium complex suínos tuberculose tuberculosis mycobacteriosis micobacteriose

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