Sagar M Patel, Monalisa Sahoo, Jigarji Chaturji Thakor, M Dinesh, Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Singh, KaramPal Singh, G Saikumar, Chandrakanta Jana, Shailesh Kumar Patel, Akash B Mote, Ravichandran Karthikeyan, Rajesh Kumar Vandre, Jitendra Kumar Biswal, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo
AIMS: We aimed to investigate the prevalence, pathology, and characterization of S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) in slaughtered pigs of India. METHODS AND RESULTS: We collected 1254 morbid tissues (lungs-627, spleen-627) and 627 heart-blood from 627 slaughtered pigs. The bacterial isolation, antibiogram, virulence gene profiling, and mouse pathogenicity testing were performed for the detection and characterization of SDSE. A total of 177 isolates (heart-blood-160; tissues-17) were recovered from 627 slaughtered pigs with higher isolation rate in heart-blood (25...
January 4, 2024: Journal of Applied Microbiology