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Lawsonia intracellularis is a species of bacterium. It is obligately intracellular and was isolated from intestines of pigs with proliferative enteropathy disease.

Pathogenicity

Lawsonia intracellularis is highly pathogenic. The species has been associated with outbreaks of bacterial infection-associated protein losing enteropathy in horses.

References

1. McORIST, S.; Gebhart, C. J.; Boid, R.; Barns, S. M. (1995). "Characterization of Lawsonia intracellularis gen. nov., sp. nov., the Obligately Intracellular Bacterium of Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 45 (4): 820–825. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-4-820. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 7547305.
2. McGurrin MK, Vengust M, Arroyo LG, Baird JD (September 2007). "An outbreak of Lawsonia intracellularis infection in a standardbred herd in Ontario". The Canadian Veterinary Journal. 48 (9): 927–30. PMC 1950111. PMID 17966333.
3. Bihr TP (January 2003). "Protein-losing enteropathy caused by Lawsonia intracellularis in a weanling foal". The Canadian Veterinary Journal. 44 (1): 65–6. PMC 340023. PMID 12619560.

Further reading

• Vannucci, Fabio A; Pusterla, Nicola; Mapes, Samantha M; Gebhart, Connie (2012). "Evidence of host adaptation in Lawsonia intracellularis infections". Veterinary Research. 43 (1): 53. doi:10.1186/1297-9716-43-53. ISSN 1297-9716. PMC 3443049. PMID 22715937.
• Husnik, R., et al. "Lawsonia intracellularis in a dog with inflammatory bowel disease." Veterinarni Medicina-UZPI 48 (2003).

External links

• "Lawsonia intracellularis". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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