Esterase electrophoresis of Clostridium perfringens bovine strains

Baldassi, LBarbosa, M. LBach, E. EIaria, S. T

Eighty-nine of 144 isolates of Clostridium perfringens abtained from 187 samples of 71 bovine in several Brazilian states were submitted to esterase electrophoresis for typing. Mobilites electrophoresis, as parameter, were settled down by isolates from ATCC pattern of types A, B, C, and D. Of the 89 isolates, 43 (48.3 per cent) were characterized as electrophoretic type A, 20 (22.5 per cent) as D, 18 (20.2 per cent) as C, and 3 (3.4 per cent) as B. Five (5.6 per cent) isolates did not identity with any type. Similarly esterase electrophoresis enabled the typing of 94.4 per cent of the isolates, demonstrating to be an appropriate method for animal sample analyses.