Studies on sheep Listeriosis in some governorates in Egypt [electronic resource].

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This work was carried out on 48 sheep animals (21, 15 and 12), collected from Ismailia , El-faoum and Giza Governorates, respectively, which were suffering from nervous manifestations as (circling, bilateral facial paralysis and drooling) .C1inical, postmortem inspection and brain tissue microbiological investigations were carried out. In addition, Pathogenicity of the isolated strains in mice, Anton's test in rabbit and antimicrobial sensitivity test were adopted. The results of bacteriological examination revealed that L. monocytogenes was recovered through direct plating from mid brains of 5 cases (10.4 %) with percentages of 14.3, 6.6 and 8.3 % in Ismailia, Elfayum and Giza Governorates respectively, while after cold enrichment procedure, the organism was recovered from 7 cases (14.6%) with percentages of 19.04, 13.3 and 8.3 % from the same governorates respectively All (100%) L. monocytogenes I/P inoculated mice showed pathological signs in the brain, heart ,liver and spleen and all instillated rabbits with the same organism (100%) were positively affected as described by Anton's eye test.

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