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- Title
Surto de listeriose sistêmica em chinchilas.
- Authors
Kirinus, Jackeline Karsten; Krewer, Carina; Zeni, Diego; Monego, Fernanda; da Silva, Marcia Cristina; Kommers, Glaucia Denise; de Vargas, Agueda Castagna
- Abstract
Listeriosis is an infectious disease, which affects a variety of animal species and cause septicemia, encephalitis and abortion. Chinchillas are the most susceptible animals to the systemic infection by Listeria monocytogenes. This report describes an outbreak of systemic listeriosis in a farm of chinchillas in the Central region of the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Mortality rate was about 16%. On necropsy, there were multiple random small white foci on the liver capsule and parenchyma and enlargement of the hepatic lymph node. Histologically, there were multifocal necro-suppurative hepatitis and suppurative lymphadenitis with numerous intralesional bacilli. L. monocytogenes was the etiology of the systemic listeriosis outbreak. The diagnosis was based on gross and microscopic lesions, genotypical and phenotypical characteristics and by immunohistochemistry technique.
- Subjects
LISTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL diseases; COMMUNICABLE diseases; SEPSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; CHINCHILLAS; LISTERIA monocytogenes
- Publication
Ciência Rural, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 3, p686
- ISSN
0103-8478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0103-84782010000300033