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First report on Encephalitozoon intestinalis infection of swine in Europe
Alexandra Valencáková1, P Balent, M Húska
1University of Veterinary Medicine, Komenského 73, 041 81 Kosice, Slovak Republic. valencakova@uvm.sk
Acta Veterinaria Hungarica
|October 6, 2006
Abstract:
Encephalitozoon intestinalis infection of sows is reported from a pig farm in Slovakia. Spores were detected by direct microscopic visualisation in the faeces of 25 out of 27 sows (92.6%). This finding was also supported serologically by the presence of specific anti-E. intestinalis antibodies and by a species-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This is the first report on E. intestinalis infection of swine in Europe.