Pheno- and genotyping of Rhodococcus equi isolated from faeces of healthy horses and cattle

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Soedarmanto, I ^a,b   Zhicai, W ^a   Setyamahanani, A ^a,b   Lammler Ch ^a  

^a Inst F Bakteriol und Immunologie   (Germany)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HORSES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032058819     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5288(98)90121-7     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. BARTON, M. D. & HUGIIES, K. L. (1980) Corynebacterium equi: a review. Veterinary Bulletins 50, 65-80
2. BELL. K. S., PHILP. J. C., CHRISTOFI. N. & A. W., D. W. J. (1996) Identification of Rhodococcus equi using the polymerase chain reaction. Letters in Applied Microbiology 23, 72-74
3. BERN, D. & LÄMMLER, Ch. (1996) Relationship between haemagglutination and HeLa-cell adherence of Rhodococcus equi. Journal of Veterinary Medicine B 43, 147-153
4. EMMONS, W., REICHWEIN, B. & WINSLOW. D. L (1991) Rhodooccus equi infection in the patient with AIDS: literature review and report of an unusual case. Review of Infectious Diseases 13, 91-96
5. FUHRMANN. C. & LÄMMLER, Ch (1996) Adherence of haemagglutinating Rhodococcus equi to murine macrophages. Medical Science Research 24, 291-293
6. FUHRMANN, C. & LÄMMLER, Ch. (1997) Charakterisierung von Rhodococcus equi- Isolaten von Pferd und Mensch Berliner und Münchner Tierärztliche Wochenschrift 110, 54-59
7. KATSUMI, M., KODOMA, N., MIKI, Y . HIRAMUNE, T, KIKUCHI, N., YANAGAWA, R & NAKAZAWA, M. (1991) Typing of Rhodococcus equi isolated from submaxillary lymph nodes of pigs in Japan. Journal of Veterinary Medicine B 38. 299-302
8. LÄMMLER, Ch., BERN, D. & ZIMMERMANN, B. (1995) Untersuchungen zu mutmaßlichen Pathogeiutatsfaktoren von Rhodococcus equi. 21. Kongress "Aktuelle Forschung" der Deutschen Verterindrmedizinischen Gesellschaft, 21-24 März 1995 in Bad Nauheim, Tagungsbericht 146-155
9. LÄMMLER, Ch. ZIMMERMANN, B. & FUHRMANN, C. (1997) Serological properties of Rhodococcus equi isolates of various origins determined with two typing systems. Medical Science Research 25, 187-189
10. McNEIL, M. M. & BROWN, J. M. (1992) Distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of Rhodococcus equi from clinical specimens. European Journal of Epidemiology 8, 437-443
11. MUTIMER, M. D. & WOOLCOCK, J. B. (1980) Corynebacterium equi in cattle and pigs. The Veterinary Quarterly 2, 25-27
12. NAKAZAWA, M., KUBO, M., SUGIMOTO, C. & ISAYAMA, Y. (1983) Serogrouping of Rhodococcus equi Microbiology and Immunology 27, 837-846
13. PRESCOTT, J. F. (1981) Capsular serotypes of Corynebacterium equi. Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine 45, 130-134
14. PRESCOTT, J. F. (1991) Rhodococcus equi: an animal and human pathogen. Clinical Microbiology Reviews 4, 20-34
15. PRESCOTT, J. J., TRAVERS, M. & YAGER-JOHNSON, J. A. (1984) Epidemiological survey of Corynebacterium equi infections on five Ontario horse farms. Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine 48, 10-13
16. SOEDARMANTO, L., OLIVEIRA, R., LÄMMLER, Ch. & DÜRRLING, H. (1997) Identification and epidemiological relationship of Rhodococcus equi isolated from cases of lymphadenitis in cattle. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie 286, 457-467
17. TAKAI, S , NARITA, K., ANDO, K & TSUBAKI, S. (1986) Ecology of Rhodococcus (Corynebacterium) equi in soil on a horse-breeding farm. Veterinary Microbiology 12, 169-177
18. TAKAI, S., OHBUSHI, S., KOIKE, K., TSUBAKI, S., OISHI, H. & KAMADA, M. (1991a) Prevelance of virulent Rhodococcus equi in isolates from soil and feces of horses from horse-breeding farms with and without endemic infections. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 29, 2887-2889
19. TAKAI, S., KOIKE, K., OHBUSHI, S , ISUMI, C & TSUBAKI, S. (1991b) Identification of 15- to 17-kilodalton antigens associated with virulent Rhodococcus equi. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 29, 439-443
20. TAKAI, S, WATANABE, Y, IKEDA, T., OZAWA, T., MATSUKURA, S., TAMADA, Y., TSUBAKI, S. & SEKIZAKI, T. (1993) Virulence-associated plasmids in Rhodococcus equi. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31, 1726-1729
21. TAKAI, S., IKEDA, T., SADAKI, Y., WATANABE, Y . OZAWA, T., TSUBAKI, S. & SEKIZAKI, T. (1995a) Identification of virulent Rhodococcus equi by amplification of gene coding for 15- to 17-kilodalton antigens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33, 1624-1627
22. TAKAI, S., IMAI, Y., FUKUNAGA, N., UCHIDA, Y., KAMISAWA, K., SASAKI, Y., TSUBAKI, S. & SEKIZAKI, T. (1995b). Identification of virulence-associated antigens and plasmids in Rhodococcus equi from patients with AIDS. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 172, 1306-1311
23. TAKAI, S., FUKUNAGA, N., OCHIAI, S., IMAI, Y., SASAKI, Y , TSUBAKI, S. & SEKIZAKI, T. (1996) Identification of intermediately virulent Rhodococcus equi isolates from pigs. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34, 1034-1037
24. TENOVER, F. C., ARBEIT, R. D., GOERING, R V., MICKELSEN, P. A., MURRAY, B. E , PERSING. D. H & SWAMINATHAN, B. (1995) Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: Criteria for bacterial strain typing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33, 2233-2239
25. YAGER, J. A. (1987) The pathogenesis of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals. Veterinary Microbiology 14, 225-232