02435naa a2200361 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400410006010000250010124501230012626000090024952014050025865000220166365000180168565000100170365000140171365000210172765000120174865000150176065000100177565000220178565300090180765300150181665300080183170000190183970000240185870000220188270000220190470000200192670000210194670000200196777300860198720673402017-03-21       2016    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.5433/1679-0359.2016v37n3p1332DOI1 aSILVA, W. E. de L. e  aBacteria isolated from abscesses of small ruminants inspected in the semiarid region of Brazil.h[electronic resource]  c2016  aLoss in the supply chain of small ruminants owing to condemnations of carcasses in the abattoirs and slaughterhouses is common in northeastern Brazil. This study aims to identify bacterial agents, including Mycobacterium spp., in the abscesses found in the postmortem analysis of the carcasses of sheep and goats bred in northeastern Brazil. Our analysis involved 679 goats and 1,838 sheep carcasses. Abscess samples were extracted and inoculated on blood agar and Lowenstein Jensen with pyruvate or glycerol for bacterial isolation. We then performed polymerase chain reaction of the hps 65 gene; samples positive for Mycobacterium spp. were subjected to DNA sequencing. Relative frequencies of abscesses in goats and sheep were 5.44 and 3.26%, respectively. Microbiological analysis revealed 87.7% bacterial growth in the inoculated samples. Among these, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosisrepresented 67.7% of the isolates. We observed 1.9% mycobacteria growth in the abscess samples inoculated on Lowenstein-Jensen medium. PCR of DNA extracted from abscesses samples showed amplification of 0.9% of samples. After sequencing, Mycobacterium spp. isolate was identified as M. novocastrense. C. pseudotuberculosis was the main agent responsible for the formation of abscesses in the examined animals, and we did not identify any species of the M. tuberculosis complex in the examined small ruminants.  aAnimal production  aMycobacterium  aSheep  aBactéria  aCadeia produtiva  aCaprino  aIsolamento  aOvino  aProdução animal  aGoat  aInspeção  aPCR1 aGOLVEIA, G. V.1 aSÁ, M. da C. A. de1 aGOUVEIA, J. J. de1 aPEIXOTO, R. de M.1 aRIET-CORREA, F.1 aVESCHI, J. L. A.1 aCOSTA, M. M. da  tSemina: Ciências Agrárias, Londrinagv. 37, n. 3, p. 1337-1344, maio/jun. 2016.