Salgado, Miguel and Otto, Barbara and Moroni, Manuel and Sandoval, Errol and Reinhardt, German and Boqvist, Sofia and Encina, Carolina and Muñoz-Zanzi, Claudia
(2015).
Isolation of Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjoprajitno from a calf with clinical leptospirosis in Chile.
BMC Veterinary Research. 11
, 1-4
[Research article]
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Abstract
Background: Although Leptospira isolation has been reported in Chilean cattle, only serological evidence of serovar Hardjo bovis infection has been routinely reported. The present report provides characterization of the pathological presentation and etiology of a clinical case of leptospirosis in a calf from the Los Rios Region in Chile.Case presentation: In a dairy herd in southern Chile, 11 of 130 calves died after presenting signs such as depression and red-tinged urine. One of these calves, a female of eight months, was necropsied, and all the pathological findings were consistent with Leptospira infection. A urine sample was submitted to conventional bacteriological analysis together with highly specific molecular biology typing tools, in order to unravel the specific Leptospira specie and serovar associated with this clinical case. A significant finding of this study was that the obtained isolate was confirmed by PCR as L. interrogans, its VNTR profile properly matching with L. interrogans Hardjoprajitno as well as its specific genomic identity revealed by secY gen.Conclusion: Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjoprajitno was associated with the investigated calf clinical case. This information adds to the value of serologic results commonly reported, which encourage vaccination improvements to match circulating strains. In addition, this finding represents the first case report of this serovar in Chilean cattle.
| Authors/Creators: | Salgado, Miguel and Otto, Barbara and Moroni, Manuel and Sandoval, Errol and Reinhardt, German and Boqvist, Sofia and Encina, Carolina and Muñoz-Zanzi, Claudia | ||||||
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| Title: | Isolation of Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjoprajitno from a calf with clinical leptospirosis in Chile | ||||||
| Series Name/Journal: | BMC Veterinary Research | ||||||
| Year of publishing : | 2015 | ||||||
| Volume: | 11 | ||||||
| Page range: | 1-4 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 4 | ||||||
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1746-6148 | ||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||
| Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
| Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
| Version: | Published version | ||||||
| Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
| Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 403 Veterinary Science > Medical Bioscience | ||||||
| Keywords: | Leptospira, Cattle, Clinical, Hardjoprajitno | ||||||
| URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3264 | ||||||
| Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3264 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 13103 | ||||||
| Faculty: | VH - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science | ||||||
| Department: | (VH) > Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health | ||||||
| Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 29 Feb 2016 07:29 | ||||||
| Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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