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PESQUISA VETERINARIA BRASILEIRA
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 716-724Publisher
REVISTA PESQUISA VETERINARIA BRASILEIRA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-736X2015000800003
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Swine pasteurellosis; necrosuppurative pleuropneumonia; sepsis
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- Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
- Embrapa
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In order to understand better the pathological aspects and spread of Pasteurella multocida type A as the primary cause of pneumonia in pigs, was made an experiment with intranasal inoculation of different concentrations of inocula [Group (G1): 10(8) Colony Forming Units (CFU)/ml; G2: 10(7) CFU/ml; G3: 10(6) CFU/ml and G4: 10(5) CFU/ml], using two pigs per group. The pigs were obtained from a high health status herd. Pigs were monitored clinically for 4 days and subsequently necropsied. All pigs had clinical signs and lesions associated with respiratory disease. Dyspnoea and hyperthermia were the main clinical signs observed. Suppurative cranioventral bronchopneumonia, in some cases associated with necrosuppurative pleuropneumonia, fibrinous pericarditis and pleuritic, were the most frequent types of lesion found. The disease evolved with septicaemia, characterized by septic infarctions in the liver and spleen, with the detection of P. multocida type A. In this study, P. multocida type A strain #11246 was the primary agent of fibrinous pleuritis and suppurative cranioventral bronchopneumonia, pericarditis and septicaemia in the pigs. All concentrations of inoculum used (10(5)-10(8) CFU/ml) were able to produce clinical and pathological changes of pneumonia, pleuritis, pericarditis and septicemia in challenged animals.
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