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Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island

Although previous studies have reported Leptospira carriage in kidneys and urine of cats, the role of these animals in leptospirosis epidemiology remains poorly understood. Using molecular methods, we investigated Leptospira renal carriage in 172 feral cats from Reunion Island, an oceanic geographic...

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Autores principales: Gomard, Y., Lagadec, E., Humeau, L., Pinet, P., Bureau, S., Da Silva, D., Turpin, M., Soulaimana Mattoir, Y., Georger, S., Mavingui, P., Tortosa, P.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6518838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30869033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819000190
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author Gomard, Y.
Lagadec, E.
Humeau, L.
Pinet, P.
Bureau, S.
Da Silva, D.
Turpin, M.
Soulaimana Mattoir, Y.
Georger, S.
Mavingui, P.
Tortosa, P.
author_facet Gomard, Y.
Lagadec, E.
Humeau, L.
Pinet, P.
Bureau, S.
Da Silva, D.
Turpin, M.
Soulaimana Mattoir, Y.
Georger, S.
Mavingui, P.
Tortosa, P.
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description Although previous studies have reported Leptospira carriage in kidneys and urine of cats, the role of these animals in leptospirosis epidemiology remains poorly understood. Using molecular methods, we investigated Leptospira renal carriage in 172 feral cats from Reunion Island, an oceanic geographically isolated island located in the South West Indian Ocean. Only one out of the 172 analysed specimens tested positive for Leptospira DNA through quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Using this positive sample, we could obtain sequences at three Leptospira loci (rrs2, lipL32 and lipL41) allowing to report for the first time Leptospira borgpetersenii naturally infecting cats. Comparisons with bacterial sequences from both acute human cases and animal reservoirs revealed similarities with Leptospira sequences previously reported on Reunion Island. However, the low prevalence (0.6%) reported herein does not support any major role of feral cats in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island, contrasting with results recently reported on another Indian Ocean Island, Christmas Island. The significance of these discrepancies is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-65188382019-06-04 Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island Gomard, Y. Lagadec, E. Humeau, L. Pinet, P. Bureau, S. Da Silva, D. Turpin, M. Soulaimana Mattoir, Y. Georger, S. Mavingui, P. Tortosa, P. Epidemiol Infect Short Paper Although previous studies have reported Leptospira carriage in kidneys and urine of cats, the role of these animals in leptospirosis epidemiology remains poorly understood. Using molecular methods, we investigated Leptospira renal carriage in 172 feral cats from Reunion Island, an oceanic geographically isolated island located in the South West Indian Ocean. Only one out of the 172 analysed specimens tested positive for Leptospira DNA through quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Using this positive sample, we could obtain sequences at three Leptospira loci (rrs2, lipL32 and lipL41) allowing to report for the first time Leptospira borgpetersenii naturally infecting cats. Comparisons with bacterial sequences from both acute human cases and animal reservoirs revealed similarities with Leptospira sequences previously reported on Reunion Island. However, the low prevalence (0.6%) reported herein does not support any major role of feral cats in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island, contrasting with results recently reported on another Indian Ocean Island, Christmas Island. The significance of these discrepancies is discussed. Cambridge University Press 2019-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6518838/ /pubmed/30869033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819000190 Text en © Cambridge University Press 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gomard, Y.
Lagadec, E.
Humeau, L.
Pinet, P.
Bureau, S.
Da Silva, D.
Turpin, M.
Soulaimana Mattoir, Y.
Georger, S.
Mavingui, P.
Tortosa, P.
Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title_full Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title_fullStr Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title_full_unstemmed Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title_short Feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on Reunion Island
title_sort feral cats do not play a major role in leptospirosis epidemiology on reunion island
topic Short Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6518838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30869033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819000190
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