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- Title
PESQUISA DE AGLUTININAS ANTILEPTOSPIRA EM SOROS SANGUÍNEOS DE ASININOS (Equus Asinus) E DE CONDUTORES DE VEÍCULOS DE TRAÇÃO ANIMAL NA CIDADE DE SãO LUíS, MA, BRASIL.
- Authors
Bezerra, Danilo Cutrim; Chaves, Nancyleni Pinto; Guerra,, Porfírio Candanedo; Pereira, Hélder de Moraes; Santos, E Hamilton Pereira
- Abstract
With the objective of searching the presence of antileptospiras agglutinin in sanguine serum of donkeys used in animal traction vehicles and of the wagon's conductors in the city of São Luis, MA, and of identifying serovars of higher occurrence, 60 serum samples of donkeys and 60 of conductors were tested regarding 30 serovars of Leptospira interrogans by using the microscopic seroagglutination test. Of the 60 blood serum samples of donkeys, 85% showed seropositivity, reacting to 21 serovars out of the 30 tested. Copenhageni, Pyrogenes, Autumnalis and Icterohaemorrhagiae were the most frequent ones, in decreasing sequence. Regarding the serum of the conductors, 38.34% presented seropositivity, reacting to 12 serovars of Leptospira interrogans and the most frequenty ones were Copenhageni, Pyrogenes, Icterohaemorrhagiae and Autumnalis. These results indicate a high incidence of anti-leptospira agglutinins in donkeys and humans, being serovars copenhageni and pyrogenes the most prevalent.
- Subjects
AGGLUTININS; SERUM; DONKEYS; LEPTOSPIRA; BLOOD; ANIMAL traction; HUMAN beings; QUANTITATIVE research; BIOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Ciência Animal Brasileira, 2010, Vol 11, Issue 4, p931
- ISSN
1518-2797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5216/cab.v11i4.9233