Carrier status of in the palatine tonsils of apparently healthy slaughtered pigs of India.

is an emerging bacterial pathogen of huge economic impact to the swine industry worldwide. The information regarding the carrier status of in the slaughtered pigs along with its genetic characterization is not available in Indian pig population, which needs to be addressed for the therapeutic and preventive measures. In the present study, 563 palatine tonsils of apparently healthy slaughtered pigs were probed for the prevalence, and genetic characterization of and prevalence were found to be 15.