Seroepidemiology of Leishmania Among Healthy Dogs in Bulgaria
Turk.J.Vet.Anim.Sci. 2007;31(1):73-74 ©TÜB‹TAK ShortCommunication SeroepidemiologyofLeishmaniaamongHealthyDogsinBulgaria IliaTSACHEV1,EmmanouilI.PAPADOGIANNAKIS2,*,VasilisKONTOS2,AndreiIVANOV1,BorislavaCHAKAROVA3, KrasimirSTOJANCHEV1,RaikoPESHEV4 1VeterinaryFaculty,TrakiaUniversity,StaraZagora-BULGARIA 2DepartmentofVeterinaryPublicHealth,NationalSchoolofPublicHealth,Athens-GREECE 3MedicalFaculty,TrakiaUniversity,StaraZagora-BULGARIA 4NationalVeterinaryDiagnosticandResearchInstitute,Sofia-BULGARIA Received:24.11.2005 Abstract: Aseroepidemiologicalstudyofcanineleishmaniasiswascarriedoutin220healthypetdogsfrom11differentregionsin Bulgariaallocatedin5regionsinsouthernBulgaria:Plovdiv(n=20),StaraZagora(n=20),Yambol(n=20),Burgas(n=20) , andBlagoevgrad(n=20),and6regionsinnorthernBulgaria:Varna(n=20),Silistra(n=20),Rousse(n=20),VelikoTarnov o (n=20),Pleven(n=20),andMontana(n=20).Theindirectfluorescentantibodytestwasused. Allbloodseraexaminedyieldednegativeresultsforleishmaniasis,thussuggestingthathealthyhouseholddogsinBulgariaare not infectedbyLeishmania. KeyWords: Dog,Leishmania,Bulgaria,IFAtest Canineleishmaniasis(CL)isaninfectiousdisease StaraZagora(n=20),Yambol(n=20),Burgas(n= causedbyprotozoabelongingtothegenus Leishmania 20),andBlagoevgrad(n=20).Forty-nineofthese and transmittedbybitesoffemalesandflies sampleswereobtainedfromfemaledogsand51were (Phlebotomus intheoldWorld).Dogsusuallypresent frommaledogs,allofvariousbreedsandages(mean withcutaneouslesionsalongwiththevisceralformofthe 3.8,SD0.39years).Theareasselectedincludedall disease(1,2).Theprevalencerateofcanineleishmaniasis
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