Presence of antibodies against some pathogens of zoonotic interest in four pig farms of Cundinamarca, Colombia

Authors

  • Adriana Pulido-Villamarín Línea de Epidemiología y Salud Animal, UNIDIA, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
  • Rubiela Castañeda-Salazar Línea de Epidemiología y Salud Animal, UNIDIA, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
  • María Fernanda Mendoza-Gómez Línea de Epidemiología y Salud Animal, UNIDIA, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
  • Laura Vivas-Díaz Línea de Epidemiología y Salud Animal, UNIDIA, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v30i1.15702

Keywords:

zoonosis, Salmonella spp; Leptospira interrogans; Yersinia spp; Trichinella spp; Toxoplasma gondii; pigs; Colombia

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the presence of antibodies against pathogens of pigs that represent public health risk due to their zoonotic potential (Salmonella spp, Leptospira interrogans, Yersinia spp, Trichinella spp and Toxoplasma gondii) in porcine sera obtained in four semi-technified pig farms from Cundinamarca, Colombia. A total of 89 blood samples were collected and analyzed using the ELISA diagnostic kits Pigtype®- Salmonella Ab, Pigtype®-Yopscreen, Pigtype®-Toxoplasma Ab and Pigtype®-Trichinella (QuiaGen®) The detection of antibodies against Leptospira spp was carried out by the microagglutination lysis test (MAT). Antibodies against Salmonella spp was observed in 40% of the samples, while for Yersinia spp and Toxoplasma gondii was in 18 and 1.1% respectively. At least one of the 13 serovars of Leptospira interrogans was detected in all four farms and none of the samples was positive for Trichinella spp. It is concluded that the pigs in the study had contact at some point of their productive cycle with most of the zoonotic pathogens evaluated, which may represent a risk to public health and pig production.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2019-03-04

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Artículos Primarios

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Rubiela Castañeda-Salazar, Adriana Pulido-Villamarín, María Fernanda Mendoza-Gómez, Laura Vivas-Díaz

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:

a. Authors retain their trade mark rights and patent, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.

b. Authors retain their right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate their article (eg, to place their article in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú (RIVEP).

c. Authors retain theirs right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part thereof (eg a compilation of his papers, lecture notes, thesis, or a book), always indicating the source of publication (the originator of the work, journal, volume, number and date).

How to Cite

Pulido-Villamarín, A., Castañeda-Salazar, R., Mendoza-Gómez, M. F., & Vivas-Díaz, L. (2019). Presence of antibodies against some pathogens of zoonotic interest in four pig farms of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Revista De Investigaciones Veterinarias Del Perú, 30(1), 446-454. https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v30i1.15702