Serological survey of leptospira infection in arabian horses in poland

Bernard Wasiński; Katarzyna Paschalis-Trela; Jan Trela; Michał Czopowicz; Jerzy Kita; Monika Żychska; Anna Cywińska; Iwona Markowska-Daniel; Craig Carter; Lucjan Witkowski

doi:10.3390/pathogens10060688

Serological survey of leptospira infection in arabian horses in poland

Bernard Wasiński, Katarzyna Paschalis-Trela, Jan Trela, Michał Czopowicz, Jerzy Kita, Monika Żychska, Anna Cywińska, Iwona Markowska-Daniel, Craig Carter, Lucjan Witkowski

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Leptospirosis is one of the most common zoonotic infections worldwide, including in most livestock, some companion animals, horses, wildlife, and humans. Epidemiological estimation of its prevalence in all species is difficult due to the variety of clinical presentations and challenges regarding laboratory diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to measure the seroprevalence of leptospiral infection in Arabian horses kept in the largest breeding farms in Poland, representing over 15% of the Polish Arabian horse population. Leptospira antibodies were detected by MAT (cut-off 1:100) in 33.2% of serum samples (204 of 615 animals) (CI 95%: 29.6–37.0%), most frequently reacting with the serovar Grippotyphosa, similar to previous reports in populations of randomly selected horses. These results indicated high Leptospira seropositivity, thus, although any form of clinical leptospirosis is rare, it may be postulated that the leptospiral exposure is widespread.

Original language	English
Article number	688
Journal	Pathogens
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10060688
State	Published - Jun 2021

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Funding: The study was partially supported by a grant from National Science Centre on the basis of the decision No DEC-2011/03/B/NZ6/04682. The study was partly supported by the grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, decision no. 9506/E-385/R/2018.

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Arabians
Horse
Leptospira
Seroprevalence

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Immunology and Allergy
Molecular Biology
Immunology and Microbiology (all)
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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