ABSTRACT
The jejunum, ileum, caecum and colon of 200 piglets were investigated immunohistochemically for the presence of Chlamydia psittaci and C. trachomatis using a vitelline IgY. Positive samples were later labelled using a commercial C. trachomatis polyclonal antiserum. Chlamydia were present in 33 (16.4%) of the animals, and 30 out of 33 were labelled by C. trachomatis polyclonal antiserum. Inclusions occurred predominantly (67%) in the large intestine. The serological results (CFT, ELISA) did not correlate well with immunohistochemical labelling in the gut. The incidence of Chlamydia rose from 6.9% in animals up to 4 weeks, to 41.8% in those over 4 weeks of age. A correlation between chlamydia and enteric disease was not obvious. Besides chlamydia, most of the diseased animals harboured other additional agents. In conclusion, intestinal chlamydiae in piglets, predominantly C. trachomatis, exist in Switzerland, although their pathogenic potential seems to be low.
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Chlamydia Infections/veterinary , Chlamydia trachomatis/isolation & purification , Chlamydophila psittaci/isolation & purification , Intestines/microbiology , Swine Diseases/microbiology , Animals , Animals, Suckling , Chlamydia Infections/epidemiology , Chlamydia Infections/microbiology , Immunohistochemistry , Incidence , Intestines/pathology , Retrospective Studies , Swine , Swine Diseases/epidemiology , Switzerland/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Two cats had unusual occlusive vascular endothelial proliferations in several organs. The newly formed cells were strictly intraluminal and of endothelial origin, as shown by positive immunohistochemical staining with factor VIII-related antigen.
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Cat Diseases/pathology , Endothelium, Vascular/pathology , Hemangiosarcoma/veterinary , Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/veterinary , Vascular Diseases/veterinary , Animals , Cat Diseases/diagnosis , Cats , Cell Division , Diagnosis, Differential , Endothelium, Vascular/chemistry , Hemangiosarcoma/diagnosis , Hemangiosarcoma/pathology , Immunohistochemistry , Male , Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/diagnosis , Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/pathology , Vascular Diseases/diagnosis , Vascular Diseases/pathology , von Willebrand Factor/analysisABSTRACT
In several animals species, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) were described as agents causing diarrhea. The histopathogenic pattern of EPEC is due to a typical adherence to enterocytes, called "attaching and effacing" (AE). This lesions are characterized by the formation of pedestals, cups and a marked loss of microvilli on enterocytes. In view of using an "in vitro system" (HeLa-cell culture) to test the adherence of EPEC, we first tested bovine EPEC in several laboratory animals. Various strains of mice, one day chicks (peroral) and a three day old calf (ligated intestinal loops) were inoculated with a bovine pathogenic EPEC (S 102-9). The adherence of EPEC "in vivo" was histologically, electron microscopically and bacteriologically investigated and compared to adherence to HeLa cell cultures. AE-lesions were found on calf enterocytes as well as on HeLa-cells, no lesions were seen in mice and chicks. The ligated intestinal loop test seems to be a useful model to compare "in vivo" to "in vitro" adherence.
