Affiliation:
1. Farm Animal Health, Sydney School of Veterinary Science and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Dichelobacter nodosus
is a fastidious, strictly anaerobic bacterium, an obligate parasite of the ruminant hoof, and the essential causative agent of virulent ovine footrot. The clinical disease results from a complex interplay between the pathogen, the environment, and the host. Sheep flocks diagnosed with virulent but not benign footrot in Australia may be quarantined and required to undergo a compulsory eradication program, with costs met by the farmer. Virulence of
D. nodosus
at least partially depends on the elaboration of a protease encoded by
aprV2
and manifests as elastase activity. Laboratory virulence tests are used to assist diagnosis because clinical differentiation of virulent and benign footrot can be challenging during the early stages of disease or when the disease is not fully expressed due to unfavorable pasture conditions. Using samples collected from foot lesions from 960 sheep from 40 flocks in four different geographic regions, we evaluated the analytical characteristics of qPCR tests for the protease gene alleles
aprV2
and
aprB2
, and compared these with results from phenotypic protease (elastase and gelatin gel) tests. There was a low level of agreement between clinical diagnosis and quantitative PCR (qPCR) test outcomes at both the flock and sample levels and poor agreement between qPCR test outcomes and the results of phenotypic virulence tests. The diagnostic specificity of the qPCR test was low at both the flock and individual swab levels (31.3% and 18.8%, respectively). By contrast, agreement between the elastase test and clinical diagnosis was high at both the flock level (diagnostic sensitivity [DSe], 100%; diagnostic specificity [DSp], 78.6%) and the isolate level (DSe, 69.5%; DSp, 80.5%).
Funder
The Ian H (Peter) Wrigley Fund
Meat and Livestock Australia
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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