Title
Seroprevalence to pathogenic leptospira in Peruvian alpacas and vicuñas
Date Issued
01 September 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Micro agglutination testing was used to detect specific antibodies against five pathogenic Leptospiraserovars ( icterohaemorrhagiae, pomona, canicola, wolfii and ballum) in 793 alpaca and 195 vicuña serum samples collected in the Huancavelica and Ayacucho Departments of Peru. The study revealed that 89.6% of the alpacas and 77.4% of the vicuñas were positive to one or more serovars. In alpacas, the titers varied from 1:100 to 1:1600 for reactions to icterohaemorrhagiae (43.4%) and pomona (37.8%), whereas among vicuñas titers varied from 1:100 to 1:400 for reactions to the same serovarsi. cterohaemorrhagiae (69.2%) and pomona (8.2%). The alpacas also had antibodies to canicola (7.8%) and wolfii (0.6%). These results show that these animals had previous exposure to 4 of the 5 serovars tested, and the elevated titers to icterohaemorrhagiae and pomona in alpacas suggest a recent infection event.
Start page
256
End page
259
Volume
130
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84941179514
Source
Small Ruminant Research
ISSN of the container
09214488
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