BORRELIOOSIA KISSOILLA JA KOIRILLA

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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 29.11.2005 19:01

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Vet Rec. 2005 Nov 19;157(21):645.

Molecular evidence of tick-transmitted infections in dogs and cats in the United Kingdom.

Shaw SE, Binns SH, Birtles RJ, Day MJ, Smithson RC, Kenny MJ.

School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol bs40 5du.

PCR analysis was used to determine the prevalence of tick-transmitted infections in 120 systemically ill dogs and 60 cats recruited over a period of three months from 52 veterinary practices in the uk. The animals had not travelled outside the uk and had one or more of the following clinical criteria: acute or recurrent pyrexia, anaemia and/or thrombocytopenia, polyarthritis/muscle pain, splenomegaly/lymphadenopathy, and intraocular inflammation with systemic signs. Blood samples from the animals were tested for the presence of dna from Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum by using simple pcr targeting. B burgdorferi sensu lato was detected in five dogs and two cats, and A phagocytophilum was detected in one dog and one cat. These results provide the first molecular evidence of naturally occurring B burgdorferi sensu lato infection in cats in the uk and confirm that A phagocytophilum infection is present in cats. There were no statistically significant associations between the infections and the clinical signs shown by the dogs and cats.

PMID: 16299364 [PubMed - in process]

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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 14.2.2006 9:03

Borreliabakteereita löydettiin tsekkiläisistä armeijan palveluksessa olevista koirista. Tutkimuksessa otettiin 399 näytttö. 22:lla oli B afzelii, 19:llä B garinii ja 15:lla molemmat bakteerikannat.


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Vet Res Commun. 2006 Apr;30(3):231-8.

Serological Confirmation of Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in Dogs in the Czech Republic.

Pejchalova K, Zakovska A, Fucik K, Schanilec P.

Department of Comparative Animal Physiology and General Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 611 37, Brno, keith@sci.muni.cz.

From the epidemiological point of view, dogs are very important since they are considered a suitable indicator of the spread of human borreliosis. Serum samples obtained from healthy, asymptomatic military dogs from 12 different areas in the Czech Republic were examined for IgG antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.). The total of 399 serum samples were tested by a whole-cell ELISA. Specific antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. were detected in 26 cases (6.5%). In different localities, the seroprevalence varied from 0.0% to 28.6%. Two local isolated strains Br-75 (Borrelia afzelii) and Br-97 (Borrelia garinii) were used as antigens. A total of 22 (5.5%) were positive for antibodies to Borrelia afzelii and 19 (4.8%) were positive for antibodies to Borrelia garinii. Fifteen cases were positive for both antibodies. A significantly higher seroprevalence was found in younger dogs (1-3 years) than in older ones (p < 0.05). An analysis of seroprevalence by months of sampling showed no significant difference (p > 0.05).

PMID: 16437298 [PubMed - in process]