Bibliographic citations
Pérez, D., (2006). Genotipificación y subtipificación de Clostridium perfringens aislados de crías de alpacas muertas por enterotoxemia [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/665
Pérez, D., Genotipificación y subtipificación de Clostridium perfringens aislados de crías de alpacas muertas por enterotoxemia [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/665
@misc{renati/481979,
title = "Genotipificación y subtipificación de Clostridium perfringens aislados de crías de alpacas muertas por enterotoxemia",
author = "Pérez Janampa, David Remy",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2006"
}
--- Enterotoxemia, caused by the Clostridium perfringens, is the most important infectious disease which affects alpacas, causing up to 70% neonatal mortality. In spite of this, little information exists on the virulence factors (toxins) of C. perfringens which play an important role in the etiopathogenesis of the disease. The objective of the present study was to determine the genotype of C. perfringens isolated from cases of enterotoxemia based on the presence of genes (cpa, cpb, etx and iap) which encode the main toxins (α, β, ε and ι), as well as the subtypes based on the presence of genes cpe and cpb2 which encode the enterotoxin (CPE) and β2-toxin respectively. A total of 47 isolations of C. perfringens were obtained from the small intestine of neonatal alpaca mortalities which had both clinical signs and gross and histological injuries typical of enterotoxemia. The DNA was extracted from these isolates and analyzed by PCR Multiplex using specific primers for the toxin genes. The cpa gene genotype A subtype cpe-cpb2-) was the only gene found in 70.2% (33/47) of the isolations. In 27.7% (13/47) of the cases the cpa and cpb2 (genotype A subtype cpe-cpb2+) genes were found and in 2.1% (1/47) the cpa, cpb and cpe (genotype C subtype cpe+cpb2-) genes were present. These results demonstrate the primary role of α-toxin, as well as the presence of β2 and β-toxins in the etiopathogenesis of enterotoxemia in alpacas. Key Words: Clostridium perfringens, genotypification, enterotoxemia, alpacas.
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