Fifteen isolates were obtained from a-96 h spontaneously fermented bambara nut to produce an 'Iru' like condiment. Pure cultures of the isolates were identified employing API 50CH strips and API CHL medium (API system, Montalieu, Vercieu, France). Their identities were confirmed as Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus pumilus. The total microbial counts showed that the microbial load increased significantly from 3.2 x 10 5 + 0.11 cfu/g at 0 h to 9.2 x 10 7 + 0.20 cfu/g at 96 h (p < 0.05). The investigation into enzymatic activities during product development revealed that the amylase activity fluctuated, by increasing significantly from 0.33 + 0
Campylobacter fetus subspecies coli was isolated from the small intestines of 17 piglets less than six weeks of age submitted for diagnosis. Sixteen of these animals had enteritis and in five of them no other probable bacterial cause of the enteric lesions was identified. Changes including congestion of the small intestinal mucosa, reduction in the height of the villi, thickening of the terminal ileum and histological evidence for inflammatory change in the small intestine were seen at post mortem examination. C f subsp coli was also isolated from the large intestinal mucosa of all the infected pits. In a further study, the organism was recovered from the colonic mucosa of 10 weaned animals treated for experimental swine dysentery. Two of these animals which had had a persistent mucoid diarrhoea were found to have large intestinal lesions resembling those of mild swine dysentery. No spirochaetes could be demonstrated in or isolated from the lesions seen in these two animals or from the other eight. The possibility that C f subsp coli may be a cause of enteritis in unweaned piglets and produce changes primarily in the small intestine is discussed. Evidence that C f subsp coli may cause large intestinal lesions in weaned pigs under certain circumstances is also discussed.
Antibiotic sensitivity patterns of 21 bacterial isolates from some clinically ill New Zealand rabbits were evaluated against 12 commonly used antibiotics by the Kirby-Bauer disk-diffusion sensitivity testing method. The 21 isolates consisted of six Bordetella bronchiseptica, eight Pasteurella multocida, four Staphylococcus aureus and three Pseudomonas alcaligenes that were associated with snuffles, pneumonia, otitis media, genital infections and conjunctivitis in these groups of caged rabbits. The four bacteria species were all sensitive to kanamycin, gentamycin and enrofloxacin, with variable sensitivity to the other antibiotics tested. The results of this antibiogram could serve as a field guide in the treatment of very acute bacterial diseases of rabbit prior to the availability of the results of local sensitivity tests. Such sensitivity tests should be reviewed yearly to update this antibiogram.
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