Bordetella bronchiseptica

- can affect pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs, other rodents

- many afflictions (see notes) but notably rhinitis atrophicans: acute rhinitis progressing to deformations of the turbinate bones, nasal septum and upper jaw

VIRULENCE FACTORS OTHER THAN LPS (toxin), FIMBRIAE (colonizing factor)

- other colonizing factors: filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin

- other toxins: adenylate cyclase (hemolysin), type 3 secretion system, dermonecrotic (heat-labile) toxin, tracheal cytotoxin, transferrin/lactoferrin binding proteins, siderophore

therapy: susceptibility testing