Open AccessOccurrence of anti-leptospira antibodies in dogs in the southwestern region of the state of São Paulo
Author(s) -
Nayna Cândida Gomes,
Antonio Francisco Souza-Filho,
Amane Paldês Gonçales,
Carlos Felipe Pinto,
Valeria C. Onofrio,
Gisele Oliveira de Souza,
Israel Barbosa Guedes,
Janessa Sampaio de Abreu,
Adriana Cortéz,
Marcos Bryan Heinemann
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de educação continuada em medicina veterinária e zootecnia do crmv-sp
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-1306
pISSN - 2179-6645
DOI - 10.36440/recmvz.v17i3.38010
Subject(s) - leptospirosis , serotype , leptospira , veterinary medicine , disease , epidemiology , biology , antibody , zoonotic disease , virology , geography , medicine , immunology , pathology
Leptospirosis is an emerging disease with different prevalence in dog populations. Dogs are crucial in the disease epidemiology, acting as accidental or maintenance hosts. Infective serovars present different geographic distribution among these populations, depending on exposure to hosts from infected wild or domestic animal reservoirs. The most common serovars that infect dogs – prior to the introduction of the vaccines against leptospirosis – were Icterohaemorrhagiae and Canicola