On-farm monitoring of mouse-invasive Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis and a model for its association with the production of contaminated eggs.
AUTOR(ES)
Guard-Petter, J
RESUMO
Mice (Mus musculus) captured in henhouses were assessed for the presence of salmonellae in spleens. Of 621 and 526 spleens cultured during the first and second years of collection, 25.0 and 17.9%, respectively, were positive for Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis. Contaminated eggs were cultured from nine houses during the first year of sampling, and for eight of these houses, serovar Enteritidis was recovered from the spleens of mice. Rank sum statistical analysis of positive mouse spleens indicated that three overlapping bacterial populations were present. This pattern of infection was repeated when lipopolysaccharide (LPS) variants were used to infect chicks, and the worst infections were associated with isolates producing high-molecular-weight (HMW) LPS. Mouse isolates were capable of producing unprecedented amounts of HMW LPS as indicated by compositional analysis of six isolates that swarmed across 2% agar, which is a type of bacterial migration dependent upon production of HMW LPS. It is suggested that serovar Enteritidis cultured from the spleens of mice caught on farms will detect strains that are enhanced in their ability to contaminate eggs, in part because they are able to produce HMW LPS.
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