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- Title
Soropositividade para Leptospira sp. e sorogrupos predominantes em cães do Pantanal Brasileiro.
- Authors
Lúcia Spanga, Maria; Figueiredo da Costa, Diego; Santos de Azevedo, Sérgio; Tomé Melo, Andréia Lima; Moura de Aguiar, Daniel; Manoel de Camargo, Lázaro
- Abstract
Given the great importance that leptospirosis has the global health context, both in human and animal aspect, this study aimed to search for antibodies anti-Leptospira sp. by the technique of microscopic agglutination test (MAT) in 429 samples of sera from dogs from four municipalities (Poconé/MT, Santo Antônio de Leverger/MT, Barão de Melgaço/MT and Corumbá/MS) located in the Brazilian Pantanal region, in order for determine associations between the results of the serological tests and answers to epidemiological questionnaires applied to owners. Of the total dogs evaluated by MAT (titer ≥100), it was verified that 34 (7.93%, 95% CI: 5.63% -11.00%) dogs had antibodies against Leptospira sp. The titers found ranged from 100 to 1600 and all municipalities analyzed had seroreactive dogs for the investigated agent. The most frequent serogroup reactor was Icterohaemorrhagiae, followed by Australis. On the other hand, smaller proportions of reactive dogs were observed for serogroups Tarassovi, Hebdomadis, Autumnalis and Grippotyphosa. The variables associated with the occurrence of leptospirosis were rural habitat (P<0.01) and flooded area (P=0.01). These results demonstrate that dogs from the Pantanal region had contact with agents of the genus Leptospira, which represents information relevant to local public health due to the zoonotic importance of the disease.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ZOONOSES; AGGLUTINATION tests; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEPTOSPIRA; WORLD health
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Science / Revista Brasileira de Ciência Veterinária, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 2, p46
- ISSN
1413-0130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4322/rbcv.2019.009