Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (7): 3105-3118.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.07.029

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Isolation, Identification and Genome Analysis of Type B Pasteurella multocida Isolated from Yak in Tibetan Nakchu City

Bohua LIU1(), Hanyu FU1, Yuheng WANG2, Suolangsizhu1, Jiaqiang NIU1, Yuhua BAO2, Jiakui LI1,3, Yefen XU1,*()   

  1. 1. Provincial Key Laboratory of Tibet Plateau Animal Epidemic Disease Research, College of Animal Science, Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College, Nyingchi 860000, China
    2. Veterinary Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Factory, Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa 850000, China
    3. College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430000, China
  • Received:2023-07-24 Online:2024-07-23 Published:2024-07-24
  • Contact: Yefen XU E-mail:484325625@qq.com;xzlzxyf@163.com

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to isolate and identify Pasteurella multocida which caused respiratory tract infection in Tibetan yaks, and to identify the biological characteristics, such as serotype, drug resistance, pathogenicity, genome characteristics and genetic evolution of the pathogenic bacteria. In this study, 498 nasopharyngeal swabs and tissue samples of yaks were collected from Nyingchi, Lhasa and Nakchu regions of Tibet. Epidemiological investigation, bacteriological isolation and purification, biochemical tests, PCR identification, K-B susceptibility test, animal pathogenicity test and whole genome sequencing of the isolates were conducted. Gene collinearity and phylogenetic analysis were carried out by Mauve software and MEGA7 software. The results showed that the positive rate of Pasteurella multocida was 2.61% in Nyingchi, Lhasa and Nakchu regions of Tibet, and a strain of Pasteurella multocida type B was isolated from the lung tissue of dead yaks, named "Pm XZ01" strain. Drug susceptibility tests showed that Pm XZ01 strain were sensitive to cephalosporins, quinolones, carbenicillin, bucaricana, cotrimoxazole and chloramphenicol antibiotics; Animal experiments showed that the mortality of rabbits (1.2×108 CFU·mL-1) and mice (1×107 CFU·mL-1) infected with Pm XZ01 strain was as high as 100%, indicating that Pm XZ01 strain had strong pathogenicity and lethality at this concentration. The total genome size of the Pm XZ01 strain obtained by whole genome sequencing was 2 331 787 bp, the GC content was 40.47%, and the total length of the repeats was 3 266 bp. It contained 121 non-coding RNA genes, including 59 tRNA genes, 19 rRNA genes and 43 ncRNA genes. There were 2 pseudogenes, 5 gene islands, 3 prophage, 68 carbohydrate active enzyme genes; CARD annotation analysis found out one PBP3 resistance gene and two EF-Tu resistance genes. VFDB and PHI-base annotation analysis revealed 101 virulence factor related genes and 663 phenotypic mutant genes. The collinearity analysis showed that Pm XZ01 strain had the best collinearity with pig HB03 (CP003328.1), HN07 (CP007040.1) and avian P1702 (CP097616.1) strains, but poor collinearity with yak Tibet-Pm1 (CP072655.1) strain. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that Pm XZ01 strain belonged to the same branch as GDZQ201401 strain (KP083466.1) from Guangdong cattle in China, and had the closest evolutionary relationship. This study completed the epidemiological investigation of pasteurellosis in Tibetan yaks, as well as the isolation, identification, biological characteristics and whole genome sequencing analysis of Pasteurellosis multocida type B of yak origin, providing a reference for exploring the epidemic rule, pathogenic mechanism and prevention and control of type B pasteurellosis of Tibetan yaks.

Key words: yak, Pasteurella multocida type B, isolation and identification, drug sensitivity, pathogenicity, genome

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