Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity

Oral swab samples, serum and colostrum was taken from 15 mares and 14 of their foals, within 24 h of birth. The presence of antibody against Actinobacillus spp. isolated from the oral cavity was investigated using agar gel immunodiffusion. Antibodies against 48 out of the 77 Actinobacillus isolates...

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Autor principal: Sternberg, S
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2202316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-42-237
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description Oral swab samples, serum and colostrum was taken from 15 mares and 14 of their foals, within 24 h of birth. The presence of antibody against Actinobacillus spp. isolated from the oral cavity was investigated using agar gel immunodiffusion. Antibodies against 48 out of the 77 Actinobacillus isolates from all horses in the study were present in the respective sera of 13 mares and 9 foals. In 11 mother-foal pairs, the antibody content of the foal serum was similar to that of the mare, and in 9 cases this was reflected in the antibody content of colostrum from the mare. The results indicate that an immune response to Actinobacillus spp. colonising the oral cavity is present in many adult horses and that this immune response can be transferred from mother to foal via colostrum.
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spelling pubmed-22023162008-01-17 Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity Sternberg, S Acta Vet Scand Original Article Oral swab samples, serum and colostrum was taken from 15 mares and 14 of their foals, within 24 h of birth. The presence of antibody against Actinobacillus spp. isolated from the oral cavity was investigated using agar gel immunodiffusion. Antibodies against 48 out of the 77 Actinobacillus isolates from all horses in the study were present in the respective sera of 13 mares and 9 foals. In 11 mother-foal pairs, the antibody content of the foal serum was similar to that of the mare, and in 9 cases this was reflected in the antibody content of colostrum from the mare. The results indicate that an immune response to Actinobacillus spp. colonising the oral cavity is present in many adult horses and that this immune response can be transferred from mother to foal via colostrum. BioMed Central 2001 2001-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2202316/ /pubmed/11503368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-42-237 Text en
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Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title_full Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title_fullStr Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title_full_unstemmed Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title_short Specific Immune Response of Mares and their Newborn Foals to Actinobacillus spp. Present in the Oral Cavity
title_sort specific immune response of mares and their newborn foals to actinobacillus spp. present in the oral cavity
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2202316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11503368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-42-237
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