scholarly journals Peer Review #1 of "Metabolic phenotype of clinical and environmental Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis isolates (v0.2)"

Plasmid ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma A. Shoulah ◽  
Anna M. Oschmann ◽  
Abdelfattah Selim ◽  
Torsten Semmler ◽  
Carsten Schwarz ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 306 (7) ◽  
pp. 495-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sanchini ◽  
Torsten Semmler ◽  
Lei Mao ◽  
Narender Kumar ◽  
Flavia Dematheis ◽  
...  

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Luigi De Grossi ◽  
Davide Santori ◽  
Antonino Barone ◽  
Silvia Abbruzzese ◽  
Matteo Ricchi ◽  
...  

Paratuberculosis is a chronic disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis (MAP). Since isolation of MAP type I (S) is rarely reported in Italy, our research was aimed at isolating, by an inexpensive liquid culture manual method, this type of MAP isolates. At first, we used an ELISA to point out to serologically positive samples from five flocks. Secondly, we used a fecal direct IS900-qPCR on the ELISA positive samples, in order to detect shedder animals. Feces from IS900-qPCR positive samples were inoculated in solid and liquid culture media. IS900-qPCR was further used to test the growth of MAP isolates in liquid medium, which were further confirmed by f57-qPCR and submitted to typing by specific PCR in order to identify the MAP type. Twenty-eight samples (24 fecal and four tissutal samples) were processed by culture methods, resulting in the isolation of six type I MAP field isolates. Notably, no isolates were recovered by solid media, underlining the utility of this liquid method. Few data about this type of MAP are currently available in Italy, and further analyses should be carried out in order to study the origin and epidemiology of type I strains circulating in Italy.


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