Lesson 8b: Escherichia coli

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usually motile with peritrichous flagella and is often fimbriae

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E. coli

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E. coli

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its cell wall lipopolysaccharide are used as antigens in serotyping E. coli

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Serotyping E. coli

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✓ Somatic (O)
✓ flagellar (H)
✓ Capsular (K)

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antigens that are protein in nature

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Flagellar (H)

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antigens that composed of polysaccharides

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Capsular (K)

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are present in many strains and act as adhesins facilitating attachment to mucosal surfaces

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Proteinaceous fimbrial (F) antigens

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Predisposing factors that permit colonization and render animals susceptible to the development of clinical disease include;

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age, immune status, nature of diet and heavy exposure to pathogenic strains

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Virulence factors of pathogenic strains of E. coli

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capsules, endotoxin, enterotoxin, structure responsible for adherence and colonization

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interfere with phagocytosis and with the antibacterial effectiveness of the complement system

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Capsule

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it released upon lysis or death of the bacteria, produce pyrogenic activity, endothelial damage leading to disseminated intravascular coagulation

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endotoxin

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are significant events in septicaemia

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endotoxic shock

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allow attachment to mucosal surfaces and facilitates colonization by diminishing the expulsive effects of peristalsis and the flushing effect of urine

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Fimbrial adhesins

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Fimbrial adhesins have been identified namely;

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K88 (F4, K99 (F5), 987 (F6), F18 and F41

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the most common adhesin present in strains of E. coli infecting pigs is?

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K88

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adhesins occurs in calves

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F41

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adhesins occurs in calves and lambs

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K99

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What receptors are found only in older piglets?

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F18

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strains that are important in post weaning diarrhoea and oedema disease

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F18+

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term of adhesin that associated with attaching and effecting E. coli

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Intimin

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produce characteristic attaching and effecting lesions in which the bacteria are intimately adherent to the host epithelial cell membrane with marked rearrangement of the cytoskeleton

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AEEC

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the pathological effects of infection with pathogenic E. coli, other than those attributed to endotoxin, derive mainly from the production of?

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enterotoxins, shigatoxins or cytotoxic necrotizing factors

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Two types of enterotoxins

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✓ heat-labile (LT)
✓ heat-stable (ST)

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found most in pigs, induces hypersecretion of fluid into the intestine through stimulation od adenylate cyclase activity

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Heat-labile (LT1)

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has been demonstrated in some ETEC strains isolated from cattle

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heat-labile (LT2)

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isolated from porcine, bovine, and human specimens

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STa

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this toxin stimulates fluid and electrolyte secretion into the small intestine and inhibits fluid absorption from the intestine by increasing intracellular guanosine monophosphate

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STa

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also causes secretion of chloride and bicarbonate ions as well as inhibition of absorption sodium ions

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STb

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affects newborn calves, lambs and piglets. common under intensive systems of management due to build-up of infection in the environment

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Enteric colibacillosis

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Important virulence factor for Enteric colibacillosis are?

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fimbrial adhesins such K99 and K88

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are of particular importance in neonatal diarrhoea

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K88 and K99

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they produce enterotoxins which stimulate hypersecretory diarrhoea and interfere with fluid absorption

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Enteric colibacillosis

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relatively frequent in calves, lambs and poultry. Often presents as an acute fatal disease with many of the clinical signs attributable to the action of endotoxin

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Colisepticaemia

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In poultry, colisepticaemia the form of the disease is called?

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coligranuloma (Hjarre’s disease)

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characterised by ironic inflammatory changes resembling tuberculous lesions which are encountered at postmortem examination in laying henz

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Coligranuloma (Hjarre’s disease)

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occurs 1 to 2 weeks after weaning in rapidly growing pigs. The aetiology of the disease is complex which includes E. coli, with nutritional and environmental changes and other stress factors contributing to its development

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Edema disease in pigs

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Isolated noninvasive E. coli strains replicate in the tract and produce a?

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shigatoxin (ST2e)

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absorbed into the bloodstream and damages endothelial cells with consequence perivascular oedema

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shigatoxin (ST2e)

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occurs in within a week or two after weaning often following changes in feeding regimens or in management and with possible involvement of rotaviruses.

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Post-weaning diarrhea of pigs

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infection of the mammary glands of cows and sows by members of the Enterobacteriaceae, including E. Coli. The acute form of the disease is characterized by endotoxaemia and can be life threatening

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coliform mastitis

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Urogenital tract infections

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Opportunistic ascending infections of the urinary tract by certain uropathogenic strains of E. coli result in cystitis, especially in bitches.

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They invade the bloodstream following infection of the intestines, lungs, or umbilical tissues

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E. coli