University of Basra master's thesis examines the spread of bacteria affecting sheep
A master's thesis at the University of Basra's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine examined the effects of the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium perfringens on necrotizing enteritis in sheep and contamination of meat products.
The thesis submitted by student Alaa Qasim Sadiq aimed to assess the prevalence of bacterial toxin types and identify the dominant type among infected sheep flocks while comparing Iraqi strains with international sources at the gene level using rRNA S16 sequencing analysis.
The thesis included obtaining 100 isolates out of 325 samples collected from sheep in Basra Governorate. The results showed that all isolates contained the cpa and plc genes while the cpe and etx genes were detected in 23.53% of the samples and A was the most prevalent with 76.5%, while D appeared in 23.53% of cases exclusively in adult sheep.
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