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Boot swabs to collect environmental samples from common locations in dairy herds for Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) detection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2013

Tobias Eisenberg ,
Wilfried Wolter ,
Mirjam Lenz ,
Karen Schlez  and
Michael Zschöck
Tobias Eisenberg
Affiliation:
Department II (veterinary medicine), Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor, Schubertstrasse 60, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
Wilfried Wolter
Affiliation:
State Council, Schanzenfeldstraße 8, D-35578 Wetzlar, Germany
Mirjam Lenz
Affiliation:
Department II (veterinary medicine), Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor, Schubertstrasse 60, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
Karen Schlez
Affiliation:
Department II (veterinary medicine), Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor, Schubertstrasse 60, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
Michael Zschöck*
Affiliation:
Department II (veterinary medicine), Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor, Schubertstrasse 60, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
*
*For correspondence; e-mail: Peter-Michael.Zschoeck@lhl.hessen.de
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Abstract

The aim of the present study was the examination of the boot swab sampling technique for the collection of environmental material in order to identify Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-infected herds. Eight dairy herds were included into the study. Four of them had a well-known history of MAP-infection from a herd surveillance programme conducted since 2006. Cows in these herds were repeatedly tested positive in Pourquier® MAP-ELISA (Pourquier, Montepellier, France); in some MAP could be isolated in individual faecal culture despite that symptoms of paratuberculosis were never reported. In four presumably negative herds nearly all cows were repeatedly tested serologically negative for MAP. The pathogen was never isolated from faecal samples of cows by culture. The study was initiated with the aim of standardising environmental samples as a herd diagnostics, in which overall 130 pairs of boot swab samples from the cows’ surroundings were taken In 58 of 64 swab samples (90·6%) from confirmed MAP-infected herds the organism could be isolated by mycobacterial culture of the boot swab. Contrarily, in 66 samples from presumably MAP-negative herds only one swab was positive (1·5%). The utilisation of boot swabs as a standardised technique for environmental sampling offers an effective and inexpensive tool for identifying herds infected with MAP. This is the first report of using boot swabs for the collection of environmental samples for MAP- detection in cattle herds. This easy to perform technique enables the economical detection of MAP herd status.

Keywords

Disease controlenvironmental samplesJohne's disease (JD)boot swabherd diagnosticsMycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP)
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 485 - 489
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 2013 

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