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Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal
BACKGROUND: Dirofilaria immitis, Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii are zoonotic parasites which can affect domestic cats. Considering the lack of published data from the local feline population, this study aimed to assess infection with or exposure to these pathogens in cats from Madeira Isl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32312294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3988-4 |
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author | Neves, Michelle Lopes, Ana Patrícia Martins, Carolina Fino, Raquel Paixão, Cláudia Damil, Liliana Lima, Clara Alho, Ana Margarida Schallig, Henk D. F. H. Dubey, Jitender P. Cardoso, Luís |
author_facet | Neves, Michelle Lopes, Ana Patrícia Martins, Carolina Fino, Raquel Paixão, Cláudia Damil, Liliana Lima, Clara Alho, Ana Margarida Schallig, Henk D. F. H. Dubey, Jitender P. Cardoso, Luís |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dirofilaria immitis, Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii are zoonotic parasites which can affect domestic cats. Considering the lack of published data from the local feline population, this study aimed to assess infection with or exposure to these pathogens in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal. METHODS: One hundred and forty-one domestic cats (77 males and 64 females; median age: 2 years) were sampled at a veterinary medical centre in Funchal, from September 2018 to January 2019. Serum samples were tested for D. immitis antigen, with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit, and for antibodies to Leishmania spp. or to T. gondii, with the direct agglutination test and the modified agglutination test, respectively. RESULTS: Five cats (3.5%; 95% confidence interval, CI: 1.2–8.1) were positive to D. immitis; no cats were seropositive to Leishmania spp. (0%; 95% CI: 0–2.6%); and 43 cats (30.5%; 95% CI: 23.0–38.8%) were seropositive to T. gondii. Prevalence of the D. immitis antigen was significantly different between cats that received ectoparasiticides and those which did not (0 vs 12.2%; P = 0.009). Prevalence of antibodies to T. gondii was significantly different between juvenile and adult cats (12.8 vs 38.0%; P = 0.007). There were two cats concurrently positive to D. immitis and T. gondii, but no statistical association between these two dependent variables was found (P = 0.641). CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first report of the presence of parasites D. immitis and T. gondii in the feline population of Madeira Island. Knowledge on the epidemiological situation of these and other zoonotic pathogens should raise awareness, both at the veterinary medical and public health levels, and contribute to promoting prevention and control. [Image: see text] |
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spelling | pubmed-71719172020-04-24 Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal Neves, Michelle Lopes, Ana Patrícia Martins, Carolina Fino, Raquel Paixão, Cláudia Damil, Liliana Lima, Clara Alho, Ana Margarida Schallig, Henk D. F. H. Dubey, Jitender P. Cardoso, Luís Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: Dirofilaria immitis, Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii are zoonotic parasites which can affect domestic cats. Considering the lack of published data from the local feline population, this study aimed to assess infection with or exposure to these pathogens in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal. METHODS: One hundred and forty-one domestic cats (77 males and 64 females; median age: 2 years) were sampled at a veterinary medical centre in Funchal, from September 2018 to January 2019. Serum samples were tested for D. immitis antigen, with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit, and for antibodies to Leishmania spp. or to T. gondii, with the direct agglutination test and the modified agglutination test, respectively. RESULTS: Five cats (3.5%; 95% confidence interval, CI: 1.2–8.1) were positive to D. immitis; no cats were seropositive to Leishmania spp. (0%; 95% CI: 0–2.6%); and 43 cats (30.5%; 95% CI: 23.0–38.8%) were seropositive to T. gondii. Prevalence of the D. immitis antigen was significantly different between cats that received ectoparasiticides and those which did not (0 vs 12.2%; P = 0.009). Prevalence of antibodies to T. gondii was significantly different between juvenile and adult cats (12.8 vs 38.0%; P = 0.007). There were two cats concurrently positive to D. immitis and T. gondii, but no statistical association between these two dependent variables was found (P = 0.641). CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first report of the presence of parasites D. immitis and T. gondii in the feline population of Madeira Island. Knowledge on the epidemiological situation of these and other zoonotic pathogens should raise awareness, both at the veterinary medical and public health levels, and contribute to promoting prevention and control. [Image: see text] BioMed Central 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7171917/ /pubmed/32312294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3988-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Neves, Michelle Lopes, Ana Patrícia Martins, Carolina Fino, Raquel Paixão, Cláudia Damil, Liliana Lima, Clara Alho, Ana Margarida Schallig, Henk D. F. H. Dubey, Jitender P. Cardoso, Luís Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title | Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title_full | Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title_fullStr | Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title_full_unstemmed | Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title_short | Survey of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Madeira Island, Portugal |
title_sort | survey of dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to leishmania infantum and toxoplasma gondii in cats from madeira island, portugal |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32312294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3988-4 |
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