62163

Bacteriological Studies on Escherichia Coli Infection in Rabbits

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Bacteriology, Immunology and Mycology

Abstract

A total number of 125 diseased rabbits collected from different farms in Port said Governorate during the period from January 2016 till March 2017 showing clinical signs of colisepticaemia ,with average age of 1-2 month  were examined, 625 collected samples  from liver, Intestine ,spleen, kidney and Heart blood (30.4%,29%,8.7%,17.4% and14.5%) were positive for E.coli respectively. These isolates were further characterized by polymerase chain reaction. E.coli was isolated in 525 of the 625samples (84%). The isolated E.coli strain  were found to belong to O stereotypes in order of frequency O 153, O 125, O 27,O158 and Untypable (28%,16%,24%,12% and 20) isolates respectively. Based on PCR, All examined E.coli were positive100 %( 5/5) for phoA virulence gene, while 60 %( 3/5) of the tested E.coli isolates were positive to eaeA gene while 20 %( 1/5) of the tested E.coli isolates were positive to Tsh gene,while all tested isolates gave negative electrophoresis ofShiga-Like Toxin gene (stx1 and stx2).

DOI

10.21608/scvmj.2017.62163

Keywords

Escherichia coli, Rabbits

Authors

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Hamza

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Eid

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Department of Bacteriology, Immunology, Mycology - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University

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Nahla

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Abd El Gawad

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Department of Food Hygiene, Animal Health Research Institute, Port Said Branch

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First Name

Eman

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Zaghlol

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Veterinarian

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Volume

22

Article Issue

2

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9370

Issue Date

2017-12-01

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2017-07-25

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2017-12-01

Page Start

133

Page End

144

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1110-6298

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2682-3284

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Suez Canal Veterinary Medical Journal. SCVMJ

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Bacteriological Studies on Escherichia Coli Infection in Rabbits

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Created At

22 Jan 2023