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- Title
Investigação de Campylobacter fetus e Tritrichomonas foetus na mucosa prepucial de touros da região do Médio Paraíba, RJ.
- Authors
da Rocha, Flávio Soares; de Jesus, Vera Lúcia Teixeira; Torres, Helenita Marques; Gomes, Marcos José Pereira; de Figueiredo, Márcio José; do Nascimento, Elmiro Rosendo; Ferreira, Teresinha; de Aquino, Maria Helena Cosendey
- Abstract
Thirty nine breeding bulls from dairy farms (n=9) and beef farms (n=30) located in Médio Paraíba region at Rio de Janeiro - Brazil state were investigated for the presence of Campylobacter fetus and Tritrichomonas foetus. For Campylobacter investigation, smegma samples were examined by culture and prepucial washings were examined by direct immunofluorescence technique (DIF). The prepucial washings were also examined for Tritrichomonas foetus presence by direct examination. C. fetus was identified in 14 samples (35.9 %) by DIF technique and C. fetus subspecies venerealis was isolated from four samples (10.3%). T. foetus was not detected in bull samples. The high frequency of C. fetus observed in bull samples suggests the occurrence of Campylobacteriosis among herds which have reproductive problems at the Médio Paraíba region.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL; DAIRY farms; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; BULLS; CAMPYLOBACTER fetus; CAMPYLOBACTER infections
- Publication
Ciência Rural, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 5, p1586
- ISSN
0103-8478
- Publication type
Article