HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2024, Vol. 63 ›› Issue (11): 134-140.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2024.11.023

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Isolation and identification of a strain of Aviobacterium paragallinarum type A

YIN Meng-yu1,3, LI Feng2, GUO Yun-qing3, ZHANG Teng-fei3, ZHANG Wen-ting3, HU Qiao3, LU Qin3, ZHAI Xin-guo1, LUO Qing-ping3,4   

  1. 1. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering,Handan 056038,Hebei,China;
    2. Jingmen (China Agricultural Valley) Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jingmen 444800,Hubei,China;
    3. Key Laboratory of the Prevention and Control of Animal Bacterial Diseases, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/ Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Pathogenic Microbiology/Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430064,China;
    4. Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430064,China
  • Received:2023-12-12 Online:2024-11-25 Published:2024-12-03

Abstract: The bacteria were isolated from diseased materials with swollen heads and swollen faces in a large-scale chicken farm in Hubei province. The molecular biology, biochemical characteristics, serotype and drug resistance of the isolated strain were identified, and the genome sequence of the isolated strain was determined. The pathogenicity of the strain was verified through animal regression experiments. Results showed that white round, smooth edges, translucent dew-like colonies were isolated from the samples. The isolated strain was gram-negative bacterium, which showed a typical “satellite” pattern in satellite tests. The 16S rRNA sequence of isolated strain was highly homologous to reported sequence of Avibacterium paragallinarum. Its serotype was identified as type A. And the results of drug susceptibility tests showed that the isolate strain was resistant to trimethoprim, lincomycin and amikacin, while sensitive to various antibiotics such as doxycycline, spectinomycin. Animal regression experiments showed that the isolated strain caused typical swollen head and face symptoms in chicks. Pathological sections showed the strain caused significant lesions in the lungs, liver and spleen of chicks. The whole-genome sequence of isolated strain showed that it had 53 drug resistance genes and 121 virulence genes.

Key words: Avibacterium paragallinarum, biochemical characteristics, pathogenicity, genome

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