Arcanobacterium pyogenes: virulence factors, importance in mastitis etiology and therapeutic (im)possibilities | Arcanobacterium pyogenes - faktori virulencije, značaj u etiologiji mastitisa i terapijske (ne)mogućnosti
2011
Milanov, D., Naučni institut za veterinarstvo Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Petrović, J., Naučni institut za veterinarstvo Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Kapetanov, M., Naučni institut za veterinarstvo Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Suvajdžić, Lj., Medicinski fakultet, Novi Sad (Serbia)
Arcanobacterium pyogenes is an opportunistic pathogen, a causative agent of suppurative infections of organs and tissues in economically important livestock species. Most frequently this bacteria is isolated from inflamed lung lesions in pigs and cattle, in samples of uterine mucus of cows with endometritis and milk from cows with clinical mastitis. A. pyogenes possesses a number of virulence factors: cholesterol-dependent cytolysin (pyolysin), two neuraminidases, several proteases, extracellular matrix-binding proteins, DNases, fimbriae. The virulence factors are well studied in laboratory conditions, but the role of these factors in the pathogenesis of A. pyogenes infections remains to be elucidated. Lately, the ability of A. pyogenes to form biofilm in vivo has also been implicated as a virulence factor and a possible cause of therapeutic failure. Despite the fact that A. pyogenes milk isolates in cows with mastitis in vitro are very sensitive to beta-lactam drugs and tetracycline, experience has shown that therapy is usually ineffective, prognosis is poor and the affected quarter is lost for milk production.
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