Porcine Post Weaning Diarrhoea (PWD) is one of the most important swine disease worldwide, caused by Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains able to provoke management, welfare and sanitary issues. ETEC is determined by proteinaceous surface appendages. Numerous studies conducted by now in pigs have demonstrated, at the enterocytes level, that, the genes mucin 4 (MUC4) and fucosyltransferase (FUT1), coding for ETEC F4 and F18 receptors respectively, can be carriers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with natural resistance/susceptibility to PWD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Comamonas kerstersii is rarely associated with infections in humans and has never been reported in animals until now.
Case Presentation: Herein, we describe a case of urinary tract infection caused by C. kerstersii in a young goat.