A serological survey of Leptospiral infection of cats in Ahvaz, southwesternof Iran

  • سال انتشار: 1390
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه طب دامی ایران، دوره: 5، شماره: 1
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJVM-5-1_010
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 576
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نویسندگان

B Mosallanejad

Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

M Ghorbanpoor Najafabadi

Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

R Avizeh

Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Gh. R. Abdollapour

Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, IslamicAzad University, Urmia Branch, Urmia, Iran

چکیده

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis with numerous reservoir hosts. The disease is caused by infection with various serovars of . This study was conducted to evaluate the seroprevalence of leptospiral infection in stray cats in Ahvaz (south-western Iran) from April 2007 to June 2008. Blood samples were collected from 102 stray cats and screened for leptospiral infection using the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Five of the 102 cats (4.9%) were serologically positive for at least one serovar of . The greatest number of reactors was for serovar balum (five serum samples). Antibodies against more than one serovar (namely, serovars balum and australis) were detected in one sample. All positive titers were detected at 1:100 dilution. The prevalence of leptospiral infection was 5.3% and 4.4% in male and female cats, respectively. There was no significant difference in positive titer prevalence between different sexes but prevalence was significantlydifferent between age groups (P= 0.021), as all cats with positive titers were three years of age or more. This is also the first report of infection withserovars balum and australis from cats in Iran.

کلیدواژه ها

Leptospirosis; seroprevalence; cat;zoonosis;Ahvaz; Iran

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