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Cevallos-Almeida M, Houdayer C, Rose V, Bailly Y, Paboeuf F, Fablet C, Denis M, Kerouanton A. Colonization of Pigs Experimentally Infected with a Monophasic Variant of Salmonella Typhimurium. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2018; 15:576-582. [PMID: 30010414 DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2018.2427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The monophasic variant of Salmonella Typhimurium is highly prevalent in human and in pork. However, little is known about colonization dynamics and serology in pigs. We orally inoculated 24 seven-week-old piglets with 109 CFU/pig of a porcine strain of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium in an experimental trial. Three groups of eight piglets were orally inoculated and monitored for 21, 49, or 84 days post-inoculation until necropsied. From 3 days post-inoculation to necropsy, individual feces were sampled twice weekly and blood once weekly. At necropsy, the tonsils, mesenteric lymph nodes, and the contents of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and cecum were collected from each pig. We determined the number of CFU/g in all the samples and measured also Salmonella antibodies in OD% in all blood samples. At different times during the trial, we tested by MLVA (Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis) the genomic stability of the strain after passing through the intestinal tract. Salmonella was continuously excreted by pigs, ranging from 1.4 to 5.8 log10 CFU/g. At necropsy, Salmonella was present in all samples, but the tonsils were particularly infected. Salmonella antibodies were detected in five pigs 7 days post-inoculation. At 49 days post-inoculation, all the pigs were seropositive. We observed new MLVA types for 3.3% of the isolates tested over the trial. Our study allowed us to show the serovar's ability to persist in pigs after infection up to 84 days post-inoculation. We demonstrated that Salmonella seroconversion appeared earlier than in naturally infected pigs and that the strain's genome can evolve after passing through the digestive tract of pigs.
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- María Cevallos-Almeida
- 1 ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France .,2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Central University of Ecuador , Quito, Ecuador
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- 1 ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 1 ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 3 ANSES, SPF Pig Production and Experimental Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 3 ANSES, SPF Pig Production and Experimental Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 4 ANSES, Swine Epidemiology and Welfare Research Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 1 ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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- 1 ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne Loire University , Ploufragan, France
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Denis M, Nagard B, Rose V, Bourgoin K, Cutimbo M, Kerouanton A. No Clear Differences between Organic or Conventional Pig Farms in the Genetic Diversity or Virulence of Campylobacter coli Isolates. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1016. [PMID: 28694791 PMCID: PMC5483432 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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To evaluate the impact of pig farm management on the genetic diversity and on the virulence of Campylobacter coli, we characterized isolates from 19 organic pig farms (62 isolates) and from 24 conventional pig farms (58 isolates). The 120 C. coli isolates were typed using pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and the presence of nine virulence genes was screened using real-time PCR. The capacity of adhesion and invasion of 61 isolates (32 from organic and 29 from conventional farms) were then tested on human intestinal Caco-2 cells. A total of 59 PFGE types and of 50 sequence types (STs) were identified. Twelve PFGE types and nine STs, accounting for 34 and 41.6% of the isolates, respectively, were common between the two production systems with ST854 dominating (18.3% of the isolates). Twenty-nine PFGE types and 25 STs were only found in isolates from organic farms, and 18 PFGE types and 16 STs from conventional farms. No significant differences were found in diversity despite the differences in rearing systems, except at the locus level for the glnA, gltA, and uncA genes. All isolates, regardless of their origin, carried the ceuE, iam, ciaB, and flaA genes and more than 95% of the isolates carried the cadF and cdtABC genes. No significant differences were found in pathogenicity between the two farming systems. The pathogenicity of the C. coli isolates was low compared to C. jejuni control strains tested. The plasmid gene virb11 was detected in only 13 isolates from organic farms; these isolates showed greater invasion capacity than those without this gene. Our study indicates that pig farm management does not significantly affect the diversity and the virulence of Campylobacter coli isolated from pigs. The common genotypes between conventional and organic farms may indicate that some genotypes are adapted to pigs.
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- Martine Denis
- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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- ANSES, Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Bretagne-Loire UniversityPloufragan, France
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Douidah L, De Zutter L, Baré J, Houf K. Towards a Typing Strategy forArcobacterSpecies Isolated from Humans and Animals and Assessment of theIn VitroGenomic Stability. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2014; 11:272-80. [DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2013.1661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Laid Douidah
- Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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Bratz K, Bücker R, Gölz G, Zakrzewski SS, Janczyk P, Nöckler K, Alter T. Experimental infection of weaned piglets with Campylobacter coli--excretion and translocation in a pig colonisation trial. Vet Microbiol 2012; 162:136-43. [PMID: 22986057 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2012] [Revised: 08/21/2012] [Accepted: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Campylobacter (C.) is one of the most common food-borne pathogen causing bacterial enteric infections in humans. Consumption of meat and meat products that have been contaminated with Campylobacter are the major source of infection. Pigs are a natural reservoir of Campylobacter spp. with C. coli as the dominant species. Even though some studies focussed on transmission of C. coli in pig herds and the excretion in faeces, little is known about the colonisation and excretion dynamics of C. coli in a complex gut microbiota present in weaned piglets and the translocation to different tissues. Therefore, an experimental trial was conducted to evaluate the colonisation and translocation ability of the porcine strain C. coli 5981 in weaned pigs. Thus, ten 35 days old piglets were intragastrically inoculated with strain C. coli 5981 (7 × 10(7)CFU/animal) encoding resistances against erythromycin and neomycin. Faecal samples were taken and C. coli levels were enumerated over 28 days. All piglets were naturally colonised with C. coli before experimental inoculation, and excretion levels ranged from 10(4) to 10(7)CFU/g faeces. However, no strain showed resistances against the additional antimicrobials used. Excretion of C. coli 5981 was seen for all piglets seven days after inoculation and highest counts were detectable ten days after inoculation with 10(6)CFU/g faeces. Post-mortem, translocation and subsequent invasion of luminal C. coli was observed for gut tissues of the small intestine and for the gut associated lymphatic tissues, such as jejunal mesenteric lymph nodes and tonsils as well as for spleen and gall bladder. In conclusion, this pig colonisation trial offers the opportunity to study C. coli colonisation in weaned piglets using the porcine strain C. coli 5981 without the need for gnotobiotic or specific pathogen-free animals.
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- Katharina Bratz
- Institute of Food Hygiene, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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