Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh thú y được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Detection of Antibodies to Erysipelothrix in Stray Dogs in Japan. | Acta vet. scand. 2005 46 159-161. Brief Communication Detection of Antibodies to Erysipelothrix in Stray Dogs in Japan By Y. Shimazaki1 K. Gamoh1 Y. Imada2 H. Makie1 M. Kanzaki3 T. Takahashi1 National Veterinary Assay Laboratory Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 1-15-1 Tokura Kokubunji Tokyo 185-8511 Japan 2National Institute of Animal Health 3-1-1 Kannondai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0856 Japan 3Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health 3-24-1 Hyakunin-cho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-0073 Japan. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is considered as a pathogenic bacterium for many species of animals. The genus Erysipelothrix had been thought to contain a single strain. However on the basis of genetic homology the genus Erysipelothrix was found to constitute different strains E. rhusiopathiae and a new strain E. tonsillarum Takahashi et al. 1992 . E. tonsillarum can be distinguished from E. rhu-siopathiae by serology the fermentation of saccharose genetic homology and the lack of pathogenicity for pigs Takahashi et al. 1992 1993 2000a . The classical host of the bacterium is the pig but it can also induce a wide variety of disease conditions in other mammals and birds Kuc-sera 1979 Takahashi et al. 1994 . The bacterium has been isolated from dogs with endocarditis Eriksen et al. 1987 Hoenig Gillette 1980 Kucsera 1979 Sisson et al. 1984 . In an experimental infection study using an isolate from a dog it was confirmed that dogs developed endocarditis after intravenous inoculation Goudswaard et al. 1973 . The isolates from dogs with endocarditis in Belgium were typed as serovar 7 which is one of the E. tonsillarum serovars Schrauwen et al. 1993 Takahashi et al. 1993 . Furthermore the isolate was classified into genomic E. tonsillarum based on the characteristics and genetic homology Takahashi et al. 2000a . Other strains isolated from several cases of erysipelas in dogs were also typed as serovar 7 Hoenig Gillette 1980 . These reports strongly indicated that E. tonsillarum
