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Seroepidemiology of leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis in equines in the northwest region of Paraná
| العنوان: | Seroepidemiology of leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis in equines in the northwest region of Paraná |
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| المؤلفون: | Filipe Corrêa Pacheco, Maria Augusta Dorigan Bondezan, Ulisses de Pádua Pereira, Roberta Torres Chiderolli, Lucienne Garcia Pretto-Giordano, Italmar Teodorico Navarro, Juliana Silva de Oliveira, Andressa Maria Rorato Nascimento de Matos, Luciana Kazue Otutumi, Daniela Dib Gonçalves |
| المصدر: | Semina: Ciências Agrárias, Vol 40, Iss 2, Pp 701-712 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Agriculture (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Carters. Risk factors, Leptospira spp, Toxoplasma gondii, Zoonosis., Agriculture (General), S1-972 |
| الوصف: | Leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis are diseases that may affect man and domestic and wild animals. They also have wide geographical distributions and thus cause large public health issues. The objective of the current study was to conduct leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis seroepidemiology in horses used for animal traction in small rural propertiesof the municipality of Umuarama, in northwest region of the state of Paraná, Brazil. Blood samples were collected from 312 horses from 87 small farms. Microscopic agglutination tests (MAT) and indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) analysis were performed on sera to detect leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis, respectively. These were performed in conjunction with an epidemiological questionnaire. The MAT results included 180 (57.69%) samples that were considered reactive with titers between 100 and 12800 for one or more serovars. Thirty-three (10.57%) samples subjected to IIF were considered reactive, with titers ranging between 64 and 1024. From the analyzed variables, contact with wild animals (p= 0.012) and animal exchange between properties (p = 0.004) were associated with toxoplasma infection. The study revealed that horses in the northwestern region of Paraná were exposed to Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii, with an insignificant implication of the animals’ clinical condition; however, since it is possible for animals to transmit infection to other animals as well as humans via the intermittent shedding of leptospires through urine into the environment, it may be considered a problem of one health. As for the presence of T. gondii antibodies, these horses played the role of sentinel of the infection. Environmental sanitation measures, serological studies of herds, control of rodents and felids on properties, and the dissemination of information about these diseases are relevant for disease control at the study site. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English Portuguese |
| تدمد: | 1676-546X 1679-0359 |
| Relation: | http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/33616; https://doaj.org/toc/1676-546X; https://doaj.org/toc/1679-0359 |
| DOI: | 10.5433/1679-0359.2019v40n2p701 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/e2fbc72cbe2545f09d20cd93989d0e03 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.2fbc72cbe2545f09d20cd93989d0e03 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1676546X 16790359 |
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| DOI: | 10.5433/1679-0359.2019v40n2p701 |