Biological characterization of Pasteurella multocida present in the Saiga population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study provides biochemical and molecular genetic characteristics of P. multocida isolated from dead saigas in 1988, 2010-2015 on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Results

Bacteriological samples taken from carcasses of saiga antelope during mortality events recorded in West Kazakhstan in both 2010 and 2011 and in Kostanay in 2012 and 2015 confirmed the presence of P. multocida, according to morphological and biochemical characterisation. Only in the event of 2015 was the agent proven to be the causative agent of the disease observed, haemorrhagic septicaemia. In the other mortality events it is not certain if the organism was a primary aetiology or an incidental finding as confirmatory pathological investigation was not undertaken. The implemented

SUBMITTER: Orynbayev M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6371526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature