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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue -, Pages 72-80Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2018.12.021
Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus; Rabbit necrotizing pneumonia; Phage; VR-SavVI-JYL01; Linezolid
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31572553, 31872505, 31502103]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0500504]
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Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important pathogens causing rabbit necrotizing pneumonia and brings huge economic losses to rabbit production. This study investigated the preventive effect of a phage on rabbit necrotizing pneumonia caused by S. aureus. S. aureus 56 was isolated from the lungs of rabbits suffering necrotizing pneumonia and identified. A novel phage named VII-SayM-JYL01 was isolated by using S. aureus S6 as a host and showed a broader host range than the phages GH15 and K. The genome of VB-SavM-JYL01 lacked bacterial virulence-, antibiotic resistance- and lysogenesis-related genes. A single intranasal administration of VB-SavM-JYL01 (3 x 10(9)PFU) could effectively improve the survival rate at 48 h to 90% (9/10) compared with the survival rate of 10% and 80% observed with the PBS or linezolid treatment, respectively. The bacterial count in the lungs of rabbits treated with the phage VB-SavM-JYL01 was 4.18 x 10(4) CFU/g at 24 h, which was significantly decreased compared to that of rabbits treated with PBS (7.38 x 10(7)CFU/g) or linezolid (3.12 x 10(5) CFU/g). The phage treatment significantly alleviated lung tissue damage. The levels of total proteins, Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), alpha-toxin (Hla) and cytokines in the lungs of the rabbits treated with the phage were significantly lower than those of the rabbits treated with PBS and similar to those of the rabbits treated with linezolid. These data demonstrate the potential utility of phage as an alternative for preventing rabbit necrotizing pneumonia caused by S. aureus.
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