The bacterium Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the etiological agent of Contagious Porcine Pleuropneumonia, a disease responsible for economic losses in the swine industry worldwide. A. pleuropneumoniae is capable of producing proteinaceous exotoxins responsible for inducing hemorrhagic lesions, one of which is ApxI. Few studies have conducted an in-depth evaluation of polymorphisms of the nucleotides that ma...
Storage of goat milk production in cold temperatures is a current Brazilian legislation request, however there is no specification of a limit period for this. The present work aimed to characterize the microbiological characteristics of raw goat milk produced in a specific region of Brazil, as well as the influence of the storage system and period on its quality. Sixty-one samples from 12 goat farms were collec...