Molecular characterisation of Mycoplasma bovis isolates from consecutive episodes of respiratory disease on Dutch veal farms.

Autor: van Engelen E; Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands. Electronic address: e.v.engelen@gdanimalhealth.com., Mars J; Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands., Dijkman R; Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Veterinary microbiology [Vet Microbiol] 2024 Nov; Vol. 298, pp. 110221. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2024.110221
Abstrakt: Mycoplasma bovis infections are wide spread in veal calf farms and a major contributor to respiratory disease. M. bovis are genetically diverse. It is unclear how this diversity influences the virulence and epidemiology of infections on veal calf farms over time. Therefore, the aim of this study was to follow the genetic composition of M. bovis isolates on veal farms over time in a fattening round and combine this with presence of disease and presence of other respiratory pathogens. For this, M. bovis isolates were obtained from healthy and diseased calves from ten different farms at different episodes of respiratory disease in the same groups in one fattening round. A new episode of respiratory disease was defined by the practitioner based on clinical diagnosis at least 7 days after end of a previous metaphylactic treatment. These isolates were sequenced using Illumina sequencing and analysed. This resulted in 148 sequenced isolates. The isolates belonged to 9 different clusters and to the known MLST sequence types ST4 (n=9), ST6 (n=2), ST7 (n=1), ST8 (n=1), ST21 (n=32), ST29 (n=30), ST32 (n=1), ST100 (n=36), ST122 (n=17) and ST135 (n=4), and new sequence types ST222 (n=8), ST223 (n=1), ST224 (n=5) and ST225 (n=1). Major sequence types are linked to types, found in other European countries. All farms showed presence of two or more different clusters, however with different distribution patterns. Farms did not show a major shift in type distribution over time. There was a relationship between M. bovis type and region of origin of the calves and the types differed with regards of presence of variable membrane surface lipoprotein (Vsp) genes. Types were not related to disease status of the calves or presence of other major respiratory pathogens. This study underlines the complexity of M. bovis infection on veal calf farms with persistent presence of different types together in both healthy and diseased calves with or without other respiratory pathogens. Prevention of introduction of M. bovis and biosecurity measures combined with optimisation of calf resilience should have priority.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Erik van Engelen reports financial support was provided by The consortium is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the former Product Board for Livestock, Meat and Eggs, MSD Animal Health, the VanDrie Group, and Denkavit. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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