<i>Chlamydia abortus</i> in Cows Oviducts, Occasional Event or Causal Connection?

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  • S Appino
    Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria University of Sassari Sassari Italy
  • L Vincenti
    Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie University of Torino Grugliasco Italy
  • A Rota
    Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie University of Torino Grugliasco Italy
  • S Pellegrini
    Azienda Sanitaria Locale Biella Italy
  • MN Chieppa
    Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta Torino Italy
  • V Cadoni
    Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria University of Sassari Sassari Italy
  • P Pregel
    Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie University of Torino Grugliasco Italy

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<jats:title>Contents</jats:title><jats:p>Fifty‐seven genital tracts of regularly slaughtered culled Piedmontese cows, aged 7.4 ± 4.3 years (mean ± SD), range: 2.6–15.6 years, were grossly and microscopically examined. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">DNA</jats:styled-content> extracted from oviducts was subjected to <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PCR</jats:styled-content> to evaluate the presence of <jats:italic>Chlamydia</jats:italic> spp. The 15 <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PCR</jats:styled-content>‐positive oviducts were subjected to Sanger sequencing and showed the presence of <jats:italic>Chamydia abortus</jats:italic>, with an identity range between 99 and 100%. Nine of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PCR</jats:styled-content>‐positive samples belonged to the 24 animals with a normal macroscopic appearance of the whole genital tract (percentage of positive oviducts in normal genital tracts 9/24 = 37.5%), while six belonged to the 33 genital tracts with lesions in one or more organs (percentage of positive oviducts in pathological genital tracts 6/33 = 18.1%); of these, a single animal had salpingitis. The detection of <jats:italic>C. abortus</jats:italic> in bovine oviducts is of particular interest because it has never been previously investigated or reported.</jats:p>

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