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Provedor de dados: | 101
País: | Cuba
Título: | Serological prevalence and risk factors of Borrelia burgdorferi in water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis, Linnaeus, 1758) on Marajó Island, northern region of Brazil
Autores: | Barbosa da Silva,Jenevaldo; Baêta,Bruna de A.; Lopes,Cinthia T.A.; Martins Land Manier,Bruna Sampaio; Nunes Santana de Castro,Gustavo; Nunes dos Santos,Priscilla; da Fonseca,Adivaldo Henrique; Diomedes Barbosa,José.
Data: | 2014-12-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Spirochetes; Borrelia sp.; ELISA; Buffaloes; Risk factors; Espiroquetas; Borrelia sp.; ELISA; Búfalos; Factores de riesgo.
Resumo: | Sera samples were collected from 330 water buffaloes on Marajó Island, state of Pará, Brazil, to assess the presence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi by indirect Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay. Approximately 45% of the animals had antibodies against B. burgdoferi. The prevalence of seropositive buffaloes, 72% (85/118), was statistically higher in the city of Soure than in the other municipalities tested. Murrah breed animals were significantly more seropositive (Prevalence Ratio (PR) = 1.84, p = 0.000) than those of the Mediterranean breed. Among the animals diagnosed positive for tuberculosis, 33% (4/12), were also seropositive for B. burgdoferi. Animals positive for tuberculosis had a significantly lower level of B. burgdorferi seropositivity (PR = 1.36, p = 0.0017) than negative animals. The study showed that there was an agent immunologically close to B. burgdorferi circulating in water buffalo on Marajó Island, state of Pará, Brazil. These results demonstrate a possible role of the water buffalo in the epidemiological chain of this agent in Brazil, and are a warning of the danger this disease could pose to public health.
Tipo: | Journal article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0253-570X2014000300002
Editor: | Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista de Salud Animal  v.36 n.3 2014