Title
Prevalence of Leptospira SP. in two cattle farms of puno
Other title
PREVALENCIA DE ANTICUERPOS CONTRALeptospira sp. EN DOS PREDIOS DE PUNO
Date Issued
01 January 2008
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
The prevalence of bovine leptospirosis in 103 cattle (98 female and 5 male) from two farms of the Puno province were studied. Blood samples were collected during February and March 2005 (rainy season), and sera was confronted with four serovar reference of Leptospira interrogans by the Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT). Two positive samples with titres of 1:100 and 1:200 were detected, representing a prevalence of 2.9%. The involved serovar was Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae.
Start page
187
End page
191
Volume
19
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84981738773
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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