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. 1983 Mar 1;24(1):74–83. doi: 10.1186/BF03546759

Isolation and Partial Characterisation of Bacteria Recovered from Abscesses of Normally Slaughtered Pigs

Isolering och karaktärisering au bakterier från bölder från normal-slaktade svin

Anders Engvall 1,2,✉, Olof Schwan 1,2
PMCID: PMC8291243  PMID: 6869149

Abstract

One hundred and one pig abscesses of different localisation were examined. Bacteria were re-covered from all abscesses. In 6’8 abscesses a mixed aerobic and anaerobic flora was found. In 22 abscesses solely aerobes and in 11 solely anaerobes were found. Gorynebaoterium pyogenes and Fuso-bacterium necrophorum were found in 61 and 45 abscesses, respectively. Hemagglutination litres of G. pyogenes strains were higher with pig erythrocytes than with sheep erythrocytes. Three of 4 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus produced enterotoxin type A.

Key words: pig abscess, Corynebacterium pyogenes, Fuso-bacterium necrophorum, hemagglutination

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Footnotes

Part of these results were presented at the 14th Nordic Veterinary Congress, Copenhagen, July 1982.

This study was supported by a grant from the Elsa and Ivar Sand-berg foundation.

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