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Role of enteric pathogens in the aetiology of neonatal diarrhoea in lambs and goat kids in Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

M. Muñoz ,
M. Álvarez ,
I. Lanza  and
P. Cármenes
M. Muñoz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sanidad Animal (Enfermedades Infecciosas y Epidemiologia), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana, E-24071 León, Spain
M. Álvarez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sanidad Animal (Enfermedades Infecciosas y Epidemiologia), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana, E-24071 León, Spain
I. Lanza
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sanidad Animal (Enfermedades Infecciosas y Epidemiologia), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana, E-24071 León, Spain
P. Cármenes
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sanidad Animal (Enfermedades Infecciosas y Epidemiologia), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana, E-24071 León, Spain
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Faeces samples from diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic lambs and goat kids aged 1–45 days were examined for enteric pathogens. Cryptosporidium parvum was detected in both diarrhoeic lambs (45%) and goat kids (42%) but not in non-diarrhoeic animals. F5+ (K99+) and/or F41+Escherichia coli strains were isolated from 26% and 22% of the diarrhoeic lambs and goat kids, respectively, although these strains, which did not produce enterotoxins ST I or LT I, were found with similar frequencies in non-diarrhoeic animals. A F5−F41−ST I+E. coli strain was isolated from a diarrhoeic lamb (0·6%). Verotoxigenic E. coli was isolated from both diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic lambs (4·1% and 8·2%, respectively) and there was no association between infection and diarrhoea. The prevalence of group A rotavirus infection in diarrhoeic lambs was very low (2·1%). Groups A and B rotaviruses were detected in three (8·1%) and five (13·5%) diarrhoeic goat kids from two single outbreaks. Group C rotaviruses were detected in four non-diarrhoeic goat kids. An association of diarrhoea and infection was demonstrated only for group B rotavirus. Clostridium perfringens was isolated from 10·8% of the diarrhoeic goat kids but not from non-diarrhoeic goat kids or lambs. Salmonella arizonae was isolated from a diarrhoeic goat kid (2·7%) and the clinical characteristics of the outbreaks where these two latter enteropathogens were found different from the rest. Picobirnaviruses were detected in a diarrhoeic lamb. No coronaviruses were detected using a bovine coronavirus ELISA. No evidence was found of synergistic effect between the agents studied. Enteric pathogens were not found in four (8·7%) and three (20%) outbreaks of diarrhoea in lambs and goat kids, respectively.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 117 , Issue 1 , August 1996 , pp. 203 - 211
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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