Cargando…
Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy
Orthpoxvirus infection can spread more easily in a population with a waning immunity with the subsequent emergence/re-emergence of the viruses pertaining to this genus. In the last two decades, several cases of Orthopoxvirus, and in particular Cowpoxvirus infections in humans were reported in differ...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8537024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34696535 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13102105 |
_version_ | 1784588149336309760 |
---|---|
author | Rosone, Francesca Sala, Marcello Giovanni Cardeti, Giusy Rombolà, Pasquale Cittadini, Marina Carnio, Azzurra Giordani, Roberta Scicluna, Maria Teresa |
author_facet | Rosone, Francesca Sala, Marcello Giovanni Cardeti, Giusy Rombolà, Pasquale Cittadini, Marina Carnio, Azzurra Giordani, Roberta Scicluna, Maria Teresa |
author_sort | Rosone, Francesca |
collection | PubMed |
description | Orthpoxvirus infection can spread more easily in a population with a waning immunity with the subsequent emergence/re-emergence of the viruses pertaining to this genus. In the last two decades, several cases of Orthopoxvirus, and in particular Cowpoxvirus infections in humans were reported in different parts of the world, possibly due to the suspension of smallpox vaccinations. To date, in Italy, few investigations were conducted on the presence of these infections, and because of this a serosurvey was carried out to evaluate Cowpoxvirus infection in feline colonies situated in the province of Rome, since these are also susceptible to other zoonotic viruses belonging to Orthopoxvirus, and from which humans may contract the infection. The sample design was set at an expected minimum seroprevalence of 7.5%, a 5% standard error and 95% confidence level. In parallel, a serological investigation was conducted using convenience sampling in domestic, exotic and wild susceptible animals of the Latium and Tuscany Regions, which are areas in the jurisdiction of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana, coordinating this study. The serological methods employed were indirect immunofluorescence for 36 sera of nonhuman primate and virus neutralization for 1198 sera of different species. All the 1234 sera examined were negative for the presence of antibodies against Cowpoxvirus, indicating its limited circulation in the areas of investigation. The methodology applied for the serosurveillance could be adopted in the case of outbreaks of this infection and for the evaluation of the spread of this infection in the area of interest, to obtain essential information crucial for animal and public health policies according to the One Health concept. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8537024 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-85370242021-10-24 Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy Rosone, Francesca Sala, Marcello Giovanni Cardeti, Giusy Rombolà, Pasquale Cittadini, Marina Carnio, Azzurra Giordani, Roberta Scicluna, Maria Teresa Viruses Article Orthpoxvirus infection can spread more easily in a population with a waning immunity with the subsequent emergence/re-emergence of the viruses pertaining to this genus. In the last two decades, several cases of Orthopoxvirus, and in particular Cowpoxvirus infections in humans were reported in different parts of the world, possibly due to the suspension of smallpox vaccinations. To date, in Italy, few investigations were conducted on the presence of these infections, and because of this a serosurvey was carried out to evaluate Cowpoxvirus infection in feline colonies situated in the province of Rome, since these are also susceptible to other zoonotic viruses belonging to Orthopoxvirus, and from which humans may contract the infection. The sample design was set at an expected minimum seroprevalence of 7.5%, a 5% standard error and 95% confidence level. In parallel, a serological investigation was conducted using convenience sampling in domestic, exotic and wild susceptible animals of the Latium and Tuscany Regions, which are areas in the jurisdiction of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana, coordinating this study. The serological methods employed were indirect immunofluorescence for 36 sera of nonhuman primate and virus neutralization for 1198 sera of different species. All the 1234 sera examined were negative for the presence of antibodies against Cowpoxvirus, indicating its limited circulation in the areas of investigation. The methodology applied for the serosurveillance could be adopted in the case of outbreaks of this infection and for the evaluation of the spread of this infection in the area of interest, to obtain essential information crucial for animal and public health policies according to the One Health concept. MDPI 2021-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8537024/ /pubmed/34696535 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13102105 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rosone, Francesca Sala, Marcello Giovanni Cardeti, Giusy Rombolà, Pasquale Cittadini, Marina Carnio, Azzurra Giordani, Roberta Scicluna, Maria Teresa Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title | Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title_full | Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title_fullStr | Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title_short | Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Orthopoxvirus in Stray Cats and in Different Domestic, Wild and Exotic Animal Species of Central Italy |
title_sort | sero-epidemiological survey of orthopoxvirus in stray cats and in different domestic, wild and exotic animal species of central italy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8537024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34696535 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13102105 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT rosonefrancesca seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT salamarcellogiovanni seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT cardetigiusy seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT rombolapasquale seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT cittadinimarina seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT carnioazzurra seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT giordaniroberta seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly AT sciclunamariateresa seroepidemiologicalsurveyoforthopoxvirusinstraycatsandindifferentdomesticwildandexoticanimalspeciesofcentralitaly |