TY - JOUR AU - Chan, Gloria AU - Farzan, Abdolvahab AU - Soltes, Glenn AU - Nicholson, Vivian M. AU - Pei, Yanlong AU - Friendship, Robert AU - Prescott, John F. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/09/04 TI - The epidemiology of Clostridium perfringens type A on Ontario swine farms, with special reference to cpb2-positive isolates JO - BMC Veterinary Research SP - 156 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - There is poor understanding of most aspects of Clostridium perfringens type A as a possible cause of neonatal diarrhea in piglets, and the prevalence and types of C. perfringens present on Ontario swine farms is unknown. To study the prevalence of fecal C. perfringens and selected toxin genes, 48 Ontario swine farms were visited between August 2010 and May 2011, and 354 fecal samples were collected from suckling pigs, lactating sows, weanling pigs, grower-finisher pigs, and gestating sows, as well as from manure pits. The fecal samples were cultured quantitatively, and toxin genes were detected by real-time multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). SN - 1746-6148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-156 DO - 10.1186/1746-6148-8-156 ID - Chan2012 ER -