Mapping of circulating leptospirosis causative agents of horses in Ukraine
Journal Title: Бюлетень "Ветеринарна біотехнологія" - Year 2017, Vol 30, Issue
Abstract
Introduction. The majority of the leading specialists studing etiologic structure of the leptospirosis and its course, require constant monitoring of both farm animals and dogs synanthropic rodents and residents of natural foci. Now one of the main areas of epidemiological and epizootic monitoring of natural focal infections is to determine enzootic areas of pathogens circulation, particulary leptospirosis. The goal of the work was to conduct mapping of horse leptospirosis outbreaks for each of the eight serogroups of Leptospira used in the diagnosis of the disease. Materials and methods. The analysis was carried out according to veterinary reports of the State Scientific-research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostic and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise for the period from 2008 to 2015. Visual display of spatial and statistical analysis is made using GIS technology through software «ESRI ArcGIS 10.1». For the serological diagnosis of horse leptospirosis microagglutination test (MAT) was applied by regional and district veterinary laboratories under the current regulations using eight Leptospira serogroups as a antigens: Sejroe, Hebdomadis, Tarassovi, Pomona, Grippotyphosa, Canicola, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Australis. From each serogroup it we was used one strain of Leptospira that has widest antigenic range. "Maps of density incidence of horse Leptospirosis" of the eight Leptospira serogroups were compiled, they visually shows the density of positive reactions to horse serum blood serogroups data by regions in Ukraine using different color intensity of each area. Results of research and discussion. It is established that epizootic situation on leptospirosis in horses in different regions of Ukraine differs and has the features both in the number of cases of infection and in the number of leptospirosis agents. At first it was compiled "Maps incidence density in horse Leptospirosis" including eight serogroups of Leptospira in the period from 2008 to 2015, allowing identify areas of risk of infection to basic diagnostic serogroups of Leptospira. Conclusion and prospects further research. In order to improve and optimize the planning and development of specific preventive measure against horse leptospirosis it is required to conduct further study of spatial distribution of the disease and determine the boundaries of natural and anthropurgic foci of leptospirosis using the accumulated data on epizootological eсoregional features spreading of this infection in Ukraine.
Authors and Affiliations
Vitaliy Uhovskyi, Galina Alekseeva, Victoria Volinetz, Maxim Bezymennyi
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