Abstract
In two groups of swine herds, herds with and without clinical AR the presence of Atrophic Rhinitis (AR) correlated with the presence of toxinogenic Pasteurella multocida (PM) and not with the Bordetella bronchiseptica (BB) infection. Six BB- and eighteen PM-strains have been investigated for AR pathogenicity. Broth cultures were injected intradermally in guinea-pigs (GPST) or intranasally in 3-week-old colostrum deprived specific pathogen free (SPF) piglets. The average atrophy of the ventral conchae (AVC) correlated with the GPST in 4 BB-and 7 PM-strains. One BB- and 2 PM-strains were qualified as doubtful, the others as non-AR pathogenic. With AR pathogenic BB-and PM-strains clinical AR could be induced in 3-and 6-week-old piglets. AVC lesions (gradation greater than 1) could be induced with BB in piglets of 6 and with pathogenic PM in 16-week-old piglets. Six of seven AR pathogenic PM-strains resembled Carter-type D and one resembled type A. No significance was found between AR pathogenicity and somatic serotypes. Intranasal instillations of cell-free broth culture filtrates of AR pathogenic PM-strains also caused AR in piglets. These filtrates also caused lethality in piglets and in mice lethalitytest (MLT) and induced a positive GPST. After heating the pathogenic effects of the filtrates disappeared. The name AR toxin has been introduced for this thermolabile, haemorrhagic dermonecrotic (HDNT) fraction of the AR inducing filtrates. The severity of the AR lesions depended on the amount of the AR toxin intranasally instilled in pigs. Cross protecting antibodies obtained in rabbits against the AR toxins of two PM strains could be demonstrated by a toxin neutralisation test in the MLT and the GPST. Broth cultures were injected intradermally in guinea-pigs (GPST) or intranasally in 3-week-old colostrum deprived specific pathogen free (SPF) piglets.
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