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Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy
Stray cats in the city of Milan, Italy, were tested for Leishmania infantum and other selected infections. Twenty-seven cats (30.0%) were seroreactive by indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), with an antibody titer of 1:40 for 16 (17.7%) cats and 1:80 (cut-off for feline L. infantum infection)...
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author | Spada, Eva Canzi, Ilaria Baggiani, Luciana Perego, Roberta Vitale, Fabrizio Migliazzo, Antonella Proverbio, Daniela |
author_facet | Spada, Eva Canzi, Ilaria Baggiani, Luciana Perego, Roberta Vitale, Fabrizio Migliazzo, Antonella Proverbio, Daniela |
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description | Stray cats in the city of Milan, Italy, were tested for Leishmania infantum and other selected infections. Twenty-seven cats (30.0%) were seroreactive by indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), with an antibody titer of 1:40 for 16 (17.7%) cats and 1:80 (cut-off for feline L. infantum infection) for 11 (12.2%) cats. One blood (1.1%) and one popliteal lymph node (1.1%) sample tested positive by real-time polymerase chain reaction; no oculoconjunctival swabs tested positive. Feline immunodeficiency virus, feline leukemia virus, and feline coronavirus (FCoV) seroprevalence determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was 6.1, 6.1, and 39.0%, respectively. Toxoplasma gondii, Bartonella henselae, and Chlamydophila felis prevalence determined by IFAT was 29.3, 17.1, and 17.1%, respectively. The frequency of seroreactivity to L. infantum was significantly higher in FCoV-seropositive cats (OR = 4.4, P = 0.04). L. infantum-infected stray cats in Milan have a high seropositivity rate, comparable to that of cats in areas endemic for leishmaniosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-71323762020-04-08 Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy Spada, Eva Canzi, Ilaria Baggiani, Luciana Perego, Roberta Vitale, Fabrizio Migliazzo, Antonella Proverbio, Daniela Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis Article Stray cats in the city of Milan, Italy, were tested for Leishmania infantum and other selected infections. Twenty-seven cats (30.0%) were seroreactive by indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), with an antibody titer of 1:40 for 16 (17.7%) cats and 1:80 (cut-off for feline L. infantum infection) for 11 (12.2%) cats. One blood (1.1%) and one popliteal lymph node (1.1%) sample tested positive by real-time polymerase chain reaction; no oculoconjunctival swabs tested positive. Feline immunodeficiency virus, feline leukemia virus, and feline coronavirus (FCoV) seroprevalence determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was 6.1, 6.1, and 39.0%, respectively. Toxoplasma gondii, Bartonella henselae, and Chlamydophila felis prevalence determined by IFAT was 29.3, 17.1, and 17.1%, respectively. The frequency of seroreactivity to L. infantum was significantly higher in FCoV-seropositive cats (OR = 4.4, P = 0.04). L. infantum-infected stray cats in Milan have a high seropositivity rate, comparable to that of cats in areas endemic for leishmaniosis. Elsevier Ltd. 2016-04 2016-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7132376/ /pubmed/27012922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2016.03.001 Text en Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Spada, Eva Canzi, Ilaria Baggiani, Luciana Perego, Roberta Vitale, Fabrizio Migliazzo, Antonella Proverbio, Daniela Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title_full | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title_short | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern Italy |
title_sort | prevalence of leishmania infantum and co-infections in stray cats in northern italy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27012922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2016.03.001 |
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