Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance

Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance

Introduction EPS is a comprehensive effort to complement other types of surveillance and provide early detection and situational awareness of significant endemic, zoonotic, and emerging diseases of livestock. The concept for EPS involves gathering syndromic and observational data from multiple animal health surveillance sources, including private practitioners, livestock markets, livestock harv...

An outbreak of acute swine erysipelase in a herd

An Outbreak of Erysipelas in Commercial Geese

Received: Revised: Accepted: Published online: Oct 22, 2014 Dec 28, 2014 May 10, 2015 July 02, 2016 Infections with the Gram-positive bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae occur in many vertebrate species worldwide. This study describes an outbreak of erysipelas in a flock of geese, which was identified by post-mortem examination, PCR, and microbiological, biochemical, and histopathological ex...

Passive surveillance of Leptospira infection in swine in Germany

Background As no current data are available on the prevalence of leptospiral infection in swine in Germany, we analysed laboratory data from diagnostic examinations carried out on samples from swine all over Germany from January 2011 to September 2016. A total of 29,829 swine sera were tested by microscopic agglutination test (MAT) for antibodies against strains of eleven Leptospira serovars. ...

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay employing a recombinant antigen for detection of protective antibody against swine erysipelas.

The specificities and sensitivities of five recombinant proteins of the surface protective antigen (SpaA) of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae were examined by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with the aim of developing a reliable serological test for the detection of protective antibody against E. rhusiopathiae. Fully mature protein and the N-terminal 416 amino acids (SpaA416) sho...