Potential for zoonotic transmission of Brachyspira pilosicoli [8]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 869-870

  Hampson, David J ^a   Oxberry, Sophy L ^a   La, Tom ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 33646574641     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.051180     Document Type: Letter

References (10)

1. Stanton TB. Physiology of ruminal and intestinal spirochaetes. In: Hampson DJ, Stanton TB, editors. Intestinal spirochaetes in domestic animals and humans. Wallingford (UK): CAB International; 1997. p. 7-45.
2. Hampson DJ, Duhamel GE. Porcine colonic spirochetosis/intestinal spirochetosis. In: Straw B, Zimmerman JJ, D'Allaire S, Taylor DJ, editors. Diseases of swine. 9th ed. Ames (IA): Iowa State University Press; 2006. p. 755-67.
3. Hampson DJ. Intestinal spirochaetes. In: McIver CJ, editor. A compendium of laboratory diagnostic methods for common and unusual enteric pathogens - an Australian perspective. Sydney: ASM Publications; 2005. p. 101-8.
4. Trott DJ, Jensen NS, Saint Girons I, Oxberry SL, Stanton TB, Lindquist D, Hampson DJ. Identification and characterization of Serpulina pilosicoli isolates from the blood of critically-ill patients. J Clin Microbiol. 1997;35:482-5.
5. Trott DJ, McLaren AJ, Hampson DJ. Pathogenicity of human and porcine intestinal spirochaetes in day-old specific pathogen free chicks: an animal model of intestinal spirochetosis. Infect Immun. 1995;63:3705-10.
6. Trott DJ, Huxtable CR, Hampson DJ. Experimental infection of newly weaned pigs with human and porcine strains of Serpulina pilosicoli. Infect Immun. 1996;64:4648-54.
7. Sacco RE, Trampel DW, Wannemuehler MJ. Experimental infection of C3H mice with avian, porcine, or human isolates of Serpulina pilosicoli. Infect Immun. 1997;65:5349-53.
8. Trott DJ, Mikosza ASJ, Combs BG, Oxberry SL, Hampson DJ. Population genetic analysis of Serpulina pilosicoli and its molecular epidemiology in villages in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1998;48:659-68.
9. Lee JI, Hampson DJ, Lymbery AJ, Harders SJ. The porcine intestinal spirochaetes: identification of new genetic groups. Vet Microbiol. 1993;34:273-85.
10. McLaren AJ, Trott DJ, Swayne DE, Oxberry SL, Hampson DJ. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of intestinal spirochetes colonizing chickens, and allocation of known pathogenic isolates to three distinct genetic groups. J Clin Microbiol. 1997;35:412-7.