Abstract

LAZO PEREZ, L et al. APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF Escherichia coli ISOLATES FROM PIGS WITH DIARRHOEIC SYNDROME IN VILLA CLARA PROVINCE. Rev Salud Anim. [online]. 2009, vol.31, n.2, pp.93-104. ISSN 0253-570X.

Escherichia coli is an important cause of diarrhoea in newborn and post weaning pigs, and it is responsible for significant economical losses at large-scale farms worldwide. In the present work, a characterization of Escherichia coli isolates was carried out in samples from pigs with diarrhoea syndrome in Villa Clara province. To accomplish this characterization, different diagnostic methods such as detection of genes encoding virulence factors, serotyped and study on pulsing-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were applied. Results showed that in the diarrhoeic processes caused by Escherichia coli affecting pigs during post-birth and post-weaning stages in different swine farms of Villa Clara province, the patotypes O141 H- STaSTb VT2 and O157 H19 VT2 were predominant. The relatively low incidence of enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) and verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) in the analyzed samples allowed to infer that other etiological agents could be acting together with the group of E. coli isolate from the affected animals. Escherichia coli isolates from samples of pigs with diarrhoea in the population studied showed a restricted number of serogroups and serotypes and the majority of the seropatotypes evaluated presented a great genetic diversity due to the different clones with distinct electrophoresis patterns showed clone relationship among the isolates of one of the most prevailing detected serotypes in the farms located was evidenced in different geographical zones.

Keywords : diarrhoea; Escherichia coli; seropatotypes; pulsing-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).

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