Massimiliano Paoletti, Franca Rossi, Ilaria Del Matto, Marco Di Domenico, Giovanni Di Teodoro, Alessandra Alessiani, Giuseppe Colapietro, Antonio Natale, Francesco Salzillo, Lucio Marino, Nicola D'Alterio, Giovanni Savini, Antonio Petrini
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Abstract
In this study, two cases of sudden death following infection-like symptoms in dairy water buffalo calves aged 5 - 12 days were investigated by anatomopathological examinations and laboratory tests. Four bacterial infectious agents were isolated from the brain, which presented meningitis-like lesions, and liver, which appeared hyperaemic and with fibrin formations. The four isolates were phenotypically identified as Streptococcus suis and found to be genetically identical by whole genome sequencing (WGS). One of the isolates was further characterized by hybrid short and long reads genome sequencing and found to represent a novel sequence type (ST) of S. suis serotype 2 . Further investigations are needed to better understand its pathogenic potential, host specificity and environmental sources of infection.
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The journal was created as the Croce Azzurra in 1950.
A quarterly peer-reviewed journal devoted to veterinary public health and other aspects of veterinary science and medicine, Veterinaria Italiana is published by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell''Abruzzo e del Molise) in Teramo, Italy.
The goal of the journal is to provide an international platform for veterinary public health information from Italy and other countries, particularly those in Eastern Europe and Africa, Asia and South America. Veterinarians and veterinary public health specialists are encouraged to share their knowledge and experience on this platform.
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