Object: Mannheimia haemolytica is a key pathogen causing shipping fever. It is an opportunistic pathogen that changes from the role of host commensal bacteria to pathogenic bacteria when the host decreases resistance to respiratory tract viruses or mycoplasma due to transportation, environmental stress or infection with respiratory viruses or mycoplasma, and the bacteria proliferate rapidly and massively proliferate and causing bacteremia, and it can cause haemorrhagic bronchopneumonia, fibroid bronchopneumonia in cattle infection. In recent years, with the development of beef cattle industry in Xinjiang, there are more and more cases of death caused by pathogen infection by transportation stress, which brings great economic loss to the transfer of beef cattle. In April 2017,suspected Pasteurella infection broke out in a batch of beef cattle dispatched in a cattle farm in Xinjiang, and resulting in the death of more than 30 sick cattle. In order to find out the causes of death of beef cattle, in this study ,heart, liver, spleen and lung tissues were collected from two diseased cattle for isolation and identification of pathogens,and some biological characteristics of the isolated strains were analyzed, which provided the etiological basis for the diagnosis and effective prevention and control of the disease.
Methods:The tissues of heart blood, liver, spleen and lung of the diseased cattle were collected aseptically for smear staining, isolation and culture of bacteria, biochemical test, serotype identification and PCR identification.The growth curve of each isolated was tested by the method of viable count (CFU) and absorbance (OD) and that of different strains were compared;The gene sequence of the leukotoxin related gene LktC,the outer membrane lipoprotein-related gene PlpB,gs60,the transferrin-binding protein-related gene tbpB,the iron-binding protein-related gene fbpA,and the glycolytic-related gene gapA,Participating in the replication-related gene dnaN,participating in the four-type pili-related gene ptfA and the adhesion-related gene fimA were loaded and designed specific primers, the DNA of the isolated strain used as template for PCR amplification;The mouse half-lethal dose (LD50) of seven Mh strains were determined by intraperitoneal injection in mice.Sensitivity detection of 19 antibacterial drugs and 5 commonly used chemical disinfectants were carried out by using the paper diffusion method and the test tube method.
Results: Seven isolates were isolated and named as Mh1 to Mh7.The results of The characteristics of morphological and growth,biochemical identification and PCR identification of the strain were consistent with the characteristics of Mannheimia haemolytica,and the results of the serotype identification showed that the isolates were capsular serum A2 type Mannheimia haemolytica.All isolates contained four types of fimbriae associated gene ptfA,involved in replication related gene dnaN,leukotoxin related gene LktC three virulence genes.The LD50 assay showed that the LD50 of isolated strain Mh1, Mh2, Mh3, Mh4, Mh5, Mh6, Mh7 were 2.25×108.50, 1.30×108.33, 3.45×107.83, 1.60×108.00, 3.60×107.83, 2.65×108.17, 1.90×108.33, respectively.All 7 strains were sensitive to most drugs such as ampicillin, ciprofloxacin,florfenicol, cefradine, cefoxitin, cefotaxime, cefotaxime, neomycin, vancomycin, and tilmicosin. Three strains of Mh3, Mh4, Mh5 were killed in 0.02%sodium hypochlorite,0.1% sodium hydroxide, 0.01% iodine solution and 0.01% peracetic acid disinfectant solution for one minute.
Conclusion:The pathogen causing shipping fever of beef cattle in a cattle farm is capsular serum A2 type hemolyti
Object: Mannheimia haemolytica is a key pathogen causing shipping fever. It is an opportunistic pathogen that changes from the role of host commensal bacteria to pathogenic bacteria when the host decreases resistance to respiratory tract viruses or mycoplasma due to transportation, environmental stress or infection with respiratory viruses or mycoplasma, and the bacteria proliferate rapidly and massively proliferate and causing bacteremia, and it can cause haemorrhagic bronchopneumonia, fibroid bronchopneumonia in cattle infection. In recent years, with the development o