Prepared-Antigens based Serodiagnosis of Ovine Pseudotuberculosis in
Serum and Milk of Lactating Ewes
Dalal Rizk1, Atef Oreiby1, Yamen Hegazy1,
Amin Tahoun1, Hazim O Khalifa2,3*, Magdy
AL-Gaabary1 and Tetsuya Matsumoto4*
1Department
of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh
University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33516, Egypt;
2Department
of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, P.O. Box 1555,
United Arab Emirates; 3Department of Pharmacology,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr
El-Sheikh 33516, Egypt; 4Department of Infectious
Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, International University of
Health and Welfare,Narita 286-0048, Japan
*Corresponding author:
hazimkhalifa@uaeu.ac.ae;
tetsuya.m@iuhw.ac.jp
Abstract
Pseudotuberculosis is
a non-treatable disease in sheep caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
resulting in significant economic losses. In this study, eleven sheep flocks
underwent examination for signs of pseudotuberculosis, focusing on lymph nodes.
Prevalence of the disease within the flocks ranged from 0 to 33.3%.
Pseudotuberculosis abscesses were frequent in lymph nodes of the head and neck.
Lesions were closed, varied in size, and contained pus with a consistency
ranging from milky to greenish-creamy. Two different crude antigens of a
PCR-identified local Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis strain were
prepared, tested as a separate ELISA solid phase to detect antibodies against
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in sera and milk of eight lactating ewes
bred within pseudotuberculosis-endemic herds. Crude-exotoxin was filtered from
cultured-broth supernatant and then concentrated. Sediment (the
crude-somatic-antigen) was washed and sonicated. Both were quantified by the
Bradford method. Comparative performance of both antigens to a commercial
recombinant-phospholipase-D antigen was investigated through ELISA against
reference positive and negative sera. A strong positive correlation between the
antigens was evident. Antigens were used to detect antibodies in sera, whole
milk, and cream-devoid milk. A positive correlation existed between results of
serum and milk of the same animal. This study described the clinical nature of
ovine pseudotuberculosis and showed the validity of the prepared antigens for
serodiagnosis in serum as well as in milk which was not reported previously.
To Cite This Article:
Rizk D, Oreiby A,
Hegazy Y, Tahoun A, Khalifa HO, AL-Gaabary M and Matsumoto T, 2024.
Prepared-Antigens based serodiagnosis of ovine pseudotuberculosis in serum and
milk of lactating ewes. Pak Vet J, 44(3): 733-738.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2024.223