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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Short Paper 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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