Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata L.): A New Potential Host for Pathogenic Leptospira Among Semi-Fossorial Mammals.
Environmental sharing
Epidemiology
Leptospirosis
Porcupine
Rodent
Seroprevalence
Journal
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases
ISSN: 1878-1667
Titre abrégé: Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7808924
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
16
01
2020
revised:
11
03
2020
accepted:
13
03
2020
pubmed:
26
3
2020
medline:
11
11
2020
entrez:
26
3
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Wildlife plays a pivot role in the epidemiology of leptospirosis and rodents have a reservoir function for several Leptospira serogroups. The crested porcupine is the largest rodent of the Italian fauna and shares the same environment with red foxes, badgers, coypus and wild boars that are known to be infected by Leptospira. Between 2018 and 2019 the seroprevalence of Leptospira in crested porcupine was investigated for the first time. Overall 7 out of 14 sera (50 %) were found positive to Leptospira. Icterohaemorrhagiae resulted as the most detected serogroup (57 %) followed by Pomona, Australis and Sejroe. The highest titer (1:1600) was detected for the serogroup Australis. These results indicate that porcupines could be infected by several serogroup of Leptospira and the role of reservoir or accidental host need to be addressed. Further investigations are necessary in order to clarify the leptospirosis - epidemiology - wildlife framework in light of its potential zoonotic source.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32208192
pii: S0147-9571(20)30061-8
doi: 10.1016/j.cimid.2020.101472
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Antibodies, Bacterial
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101472Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest