Carriage of the classical thermotolerant campylobacters in healthy domestic animals from Eastern Peru

Presença dos clássicos campylobacters termotolerantes em animais domésticos sadios do leste do Perú

Campylobacter; Carriage; Reservoirs

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Carriage of the classical thermotolerant campylobacters in healthy domestic animals from Eastern Peru

Presença dos clássicos campylobacters termotolerantes em animais domésticos sadios do leste do Perú

Alvaro Tresierra-Ayala^I; Maria Elena Bendayan^I; Alfonso Bernuy^I; Freddy Espinoza^I; Heriberto Fernandez^II

^IDepartment of Microbiology. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana. P.O. Box 751. Iquitos - Peru

^IIInstitute of Clinical Microbiology. Universidad Austral de Chile. P. O. Box 567. Valdivia - Chile

^{Correspondence to}

Keywords:Campylobacter; Carriage; Reservoirs.

RESUMO

Com o objetivo de conhecer a importância dos animais domésticos como reservatórios naturais dos clássicos campylobacters termotolerantes, amostras de fezes foram obtidas de mamíferos e aves do leste do Peru e imediatamente colocadas num meio de enriquecimento. Técnicas convencionais foram utilizadas para identificar C. jejuni ssp. jejuni, C. coli e C. lari.

Campylobacter foi isolado em 26,5% dos animais estudados, sendo C. jejuni ssp. jejuni biovar I o mais freqüente (8,9%). O frango foi o reservatório mais importante destes microorganismos (54,0%).

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Recebido para publicação em 16/05/1995.

Aceito para publicação em 07/08/1995.

Financial support: Grant of Investig. Office - U.N.A.P. and CONCYTEC 225-04-94-OAI Grant S-92-05 DID-UACH.

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Correspondence to:

Prof. Alvaro Tresierra-Ayala

P.O. Box 751. Iquitos - Peru

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  22 Sept 2006
• Date of issue
  Dec 1995

History

• Received
  16 May 1995
• Accepted
  07 Aug 1995