INCIDENCE OF INFECTION FOR LEPTOSPIRA SPP. IN CAPYBARAS (HYDROCHOERUS HYDROCHAERIS) REARED IN CAPTIVITY IN IQUITOS

Authors

  • Esther Cueva A. Laboratorio de Microbiología y Parasitología Veterinaria
  • Hermelinda Rivera G. Laboratorio de Microbiología y Parasitología Veterinaria
  • Nofre Sánchez P. Estación Experimental del Centro de Investigación IVITA-Iquitos, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
  • Mercy Ramírez V. Laboratorio de Microbiología y Parasitología Veterinaria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v21i1.362

Keywords:

capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, Leptospira sp, serovar, antibodies, incidence

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of Leptospira sp., in capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) from a zoo farm in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru. Blood samples from 36 young and adults capyrabas, both female and male, were collected in three samplings periods with a 2-month interval for detecting antibodies against 13 serovars of Leptospira sp. by microaglutination test. The 97.2, 100 y 100% of the samples collected during the first, second and third sampling period had antibodies against Leptospira sp. respectively. The serovar georgia, canicola and ballum were detected in the first, second and third sample, pomona and australis in the second and third, and tarassovi only in the third sampling period. The most frequent serovars were georgia, canicola, and ballum. The accumulated incidence of Leptospira sp. infection was 86.0 ± 18.2% (31/36) animals/0.25year. The accumulated incidence of each serovar also indicated that georgia (100%), ballum (36.3%), canicola (25.8%) and tarassovi (16.6%) were the more frequent. The samples resulted negative to antibodies against the serovars icterohemorrhagiae, wolffi, hardjo, bratislava, grippotyphosa and javanica. The results indicate that Leptospira sp. infection is endemic on the capyraba population in the zoo farm in Iquitos city.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2010-07-15

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Artículos Primarios

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Esther Cueva A., Hermelinda Rivera G., Nofre Sánchez P., Mercy Ramírez V.

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

Cueva A., E., Rivera G., H., Sánchez P., N., & Ramírez V., M. (2010). INCIDENCE OF INFECTION FOR LEPTOSPIRA SPP. IN CAPYBARAS (HYDROCHOERUS HYDROCHAERIS) REARED IN CAPTIVITY IN IQUITOS. Revista De Investigaciones Veterinarias Del Perú, 21(1), 106-112. https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v21i1.362