Title
Association of leptospira infection and reproductive problems in a large sheep farm in the central highlands of Peru
Other title
Asociación entre infección leptospiral y problemas reproductivos en ovejas de una empresa ganadera en la sierra central del perú
Date Issued
01 January 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Laboratorio de Microbiología y Parasitología Veterinaria
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
The association between leptospiral infection and reproductive problems in ewes from a large sheep enterprise in Junin, Peru, was evaluated in a Case-Control study during the breeding season of 2003. Serum samples from 2-10 year-old ewes with abortion or infertility problems (Case group, n = 220) and from ewes without reproductive problems (Control group, n = 220) were collected for the detection of antibodies against Leptospira serovar: pomona, hardjo, canicola, icterohaemorrhagiae, grippotyphosa, wolffi, ballum and bratislava by the microscopic agglutination test. The prevalence of Leptospira sp. was 24.8 ± 4.6%, corresponding 28.6 ± 7.0% to the Case group and 20.9 ± 5.9% to the Control group. No statistic association between leptospiral antibodies and reproductive problems was found by the Chi Square test. The highest serological prevalence (42.2%) was recorded for serovar ballum followed by icterohaemorrhagiae (31.2%). Animals with antibodies to more than one serovar of Leptospira were detected.
Start page
120
End page
127
Volume
20
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85047109955
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
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