Virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis isolated from pork and from the throats of swine.
AUTOR(ES)
Shiozawa, K
RESUMO
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was isolated from retail pork and from healthy swine throats. These wild-type strains and their representative cured isogenic strains were tested for the presence of plasmids and several virulence factors, and these characteristics were compared with those of virulent strains from humans. Two pork isolates (serotype IVB) and four swine isolates (serotypes IIB, IIC, III, and IVB) harbored a 42- to 48-megadalton plasmid which had similar fragmentation patterns resulting from digestion with restriction endonuclease. These six strains were lethal for mice via oral challenge and were positive in autoagglutination and calcium dependency tests. They also invaded HeLa cells and induced cytotoxicity. Histopathological examination and indirect fluorescent-antibody staining provided definite evidence of the pathogenicity of these strains when tissue sections from orally infected mice were used. The virulence factors of wild-type pork and swine isolates with the 42- to 48-megadalton plasmid were identical to those of two human isolates (serotypes IVB and VB). Hence, these pork and swine isolates should be considered potentially pathogenic for humans. The finding suggests that retail pork and swine may play an important role in the epidemiology of human infections caused by Y. pseudotuberculosis.
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