TY  - JOUR
T1  - Seroepidemiologic Study of Goats Leptospirosis in Khoy-Iran
AU - Hassanpour, A. AU - Asgarloo, S. AU - Imandar, M. AU - Mashayekhi, M. AU - Abdollahpour, G.R. AU - Safarmashaei, S. 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SP  - 229
EP  - 233
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2012.229.233
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2012.229.233
KW  - Goats
KW  -seroprevalence
KW  -leptospira
KW  -MAT
KW  -animals
KW  -Iran
AB  - This study was conducted on 150 goats (up to 1 to >6 years) in Khoy area in the North of Iran at Spring of 2010 in order to seroprevalence of leptospiral infection. Blood samples were collected from the animals and sera were initially screened at dilution of 1:100 against 6 live serovars of Leptospira interrogans: Pomona, Canicola, Hardjo, Ballum, Icterohaemorrhagiae and Grippotyphosa using the Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT). The serum positive goats were in 4-6 years and the seroprevalence of leptospiral infection was 13.3% in them. About 20% of infected goats were in the moist stables and 80% were in the moist (marshy) stables. There was a significant difference between the seroprevalence of disease in two kind of stables (p<0.05). Also statistically, a significant relationship observed between the increased age of examined animals and the seroprevalence of disease (p<0.05). The highest number of reactors in goats was 80% due to serovar grippotyphosa and 20% due to serovar Pomona. The majority of titer levels were 100 for all the serovars. These results confirm that the majority of leptospiral infections are asymptomatic and indicate the risk of exposure of organism to other animals.
ER  -