Bibliographic citations
Mendoza, A., (2004). Presencia de anticuerpos contra Leptospira spp. en sajinos (Tayassu tajacu) mantenidos en cautiverio en la Amazonía peruana [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1549
Mendoza, A., Presencia de anticuerpos contra Leptospira spp. en sajinos (Tayassu tajacu) mantenidos en cautiverio en la Amazonía peruana [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1549
@misc{renati/484809,
title = "Presencia de anticuerpos contra Leptospira spp. en sajinos (Tayassu tajacu) mantenidos en cautiverio en la Amazonía peruana",
author = "Mendoza Becerra, Ana Patricia",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2004"
}
Serum samples from 98 collared peccaries (Tayassu tajacu) from 5 experimental farms in the regions Loreto and Ucayali in the Peruvian Amazon were collected from May 2004 to September 2004. The sera were screened against a reference panel of 22 serovars of Leptospira spp. using the Microscopic Agglutination Test. (MAT). Leptospiral antibodies at ≥1:100 titters were detected in 64 (65,3%) of the sera. Antibody prevalence was 100 % in Loreto and 50,7% in Ucayali. The most frequent detected serovars were Leptospira spp serovar Varillal 010 (56,1%), L. interrogans serovar Bratislava (17,3%) and L. santarosai serovar Borincana (8,3%). Twenty nine sera were reactive to more than one serovar. The most frequent serovar association was Varillal 010 – Bratislava. Highest antibody titers were detected against serovars Tarassovi (1:6400) and Icterohaemorrhagiae (1:3200). The high seroprevalence and high antibody titers in absence of clinical signs indicative of the disease in the population, suggests of the presence of enzootic leptospiral infection in presence of host-adapted serovars. The sources of the infection, clinical signs associates and the persistence of the immunity in seropositive animals should be determinated.
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