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Swine enteric colibacillosis: diagnosis, therapy and antimicrobial resistance

Overview of attention for article published in Porcine Health Management, August 2017
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Title
Swine enteric colibacillosis: diagnosis, therapy and antimicrobial resistance
Published in
Porcine Health Management, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40813-017-0063-4
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Authors

Andrea Luppi

Abstract

Intestinal infection with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important disease in swine resulting in significant economic losses. Knowledge about the epidemiology, the diagnostic approach and methods of control are of fundamental importance to tackle the disease. The ETEC causing neonatal colibacillosis mostly carry the fimbriae F4 (k88), F5 (k99), F6 (987P) or F41, while the ETEC of post-weaning diarrhoea carry the fimbriae F4 (k88) and F18. These fimbriae adhere to specific receptors on porcine intestinal brush border epithelial cells (enterocytes), starting the process of enteric infection. After this colonization, the bacteria produce one or more enterotoxins inducing diarrhoea, such as the heat stable toxin a (STa), the heat stable toxin b (STb), and the heat labile toxin (LT). A role in the pathogenesis of the disease was demonstrated for these toxins. The diagnosis of enteric colibacillosis is based on the isolation and quantification of the pathogenic E.coli coupled with the demonstration by PCR of the genes encoding for virulence factors (fimbriae and toxins). The diagnostic approach to enteric colibacillosis must consider the differential diagnosis and the potential different causes that can be involved in the outbreak. Among the different methods of control of colibacillosis, the use of antimicrobials is widely practiced and antibiotics are used in two main ways: as prophylactic or metaphylactic treatment to prevent disease and for therapeutic purposes to treat diseased pigs. An accurate diagnosis of enteric colibacillosis needs an appropriate sampling for the isolation and quantification of the ETEC responsible for the outbreak by using semi-quantitative bacteriology. Definitive diagnosis is based on the presence of characteristic lesions and results of bacteriology along with confirmation of appropriate virulence factors to identify the isolated E.coli. It is important to confirm the diagnosis and to perform antimicrobial sensitivity tests because antimicrobial sensitivity varies greatly among E. coli isolates. Growing concern on the increase of antimicrobial resistance force a more rational use of antibiotics and this can be achieved through a correct understanding of the issues related to antibiotic therapy and to the use of antibiotics by both practitioners and farmers.

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Unknown 310 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 44 14%
Student > Master 42 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 13%
Researcher 26 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 5%
Other 43 14%
Unknown 99 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 67 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 36 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 16 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 3%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 107 35%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 April 2022.
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#2,972,545
of 23,007,053 outputs
Outputs from Porcine Health Management
#14
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#57,182
of 317,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Porcine Health Management
#2
of 8 outputs
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