saxitoxin and Paraplegia

saxitoxin has been researched along with Paraplegia* in 1 studies

Other Studies

1 other study(ies) available for saxitoxin and Paraplegia

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Identification of Enterobacter bacteria as saxitoxin producers in cattle's rumen and surface water from Venezuelan Savannahs. Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology, 2003, Sep-15, Volume: 42, Issue:4 We have previously shown that a paralytic toxin able to block sodium channels in nerve is associated with a cattle disease known as bovine paraplegic syndrome (BPS) [Toxicon. 31 (1993) 1581]. We have now identified this as saxitoxin (STX) using HPLC by either the methods of [Toxicon. 31 (1993) 1581], or [Toxicon. 25 (1987) 1105]. In recent experiments we were able to collect and cultivate facultative anaerobic bacteria growing on rumen, grass and ponds of corrals with high incidence of BPS; the cultured bacteria produce compounds indistinguishable from STX under both HPLC procedures described above. Two species of the Enterobacter genus (E. asburiae and E. cloacae) and a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, were identified using standard biochemical criteria as well as gas chromatography of bacterial lipids. All these bacteria produced STX in aerobic cultures. Topics: Animal Feed; Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Enterobacter; Fresh Water; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Paraplegia; Poaceae; Rumen; Saxitoxin	2003

Article

Year

Identification of Enterobacter bacteria as saxitoxin producers in cattle's rumen and surface water from Venezuelan Savannahs.

Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology, 2003, Sep-15, Volume: 42, Issue:4

We have previously shown that a paralytic toxin able to block sodium channels in nerve is associated with a cattle disease known as bovine paraplegic syndrome (BPS) [Toxicon. 31 (1993) 1581]. We have now identified this as saxitoxin (STX) using HPLC by either the methods of [Toxicon. 31 (1993) 1581], or [Toxicon. 25 (1987) 1105]. In recent experiments we were able to collect and cultivate facultative anaerobic bacteria growing on rumen, grass and ponds of corrals with high incidence of BPS; the cultured bacteria produce compounds indistinguishable from STX under both HPLC procedures described above. Two species of the Enterobacter genus (E. asburiae and E. cloacae) and a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, were identified using standard biochemical criteria as well as gas chromatography of bacterial lipids. All these bacteria produced STX in aerobic cultures.

Topics: Animal Feed; Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Enterobacter; Fresh Water; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Paraplegia; Poaceae; Rumen; Saxitoxin

2003