Backhans, Annette
- Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
Rat carcasses obtained from pest control interventions can potentially be used for an efficient surveillance of zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis. To evaluate the performance of different laboratory methods for detection of pathogenic Leptospira spp., heart and kidney samples from wild Norway rats were analyzed by microscopic agglutination test (MAT, the gold standard), a commercial IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and by an optimized quantitative PCR (secY qPCR, followed by sequencing). We found secY qPCR to be as sensitive as MAT for screening of Leptospira infection in pest control rats and selected secY qPCR for a larger screening of rats from urban and rural areas in central and southern Sweden. We identified secY qPCR positive rats from the cities Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmo, which were further confirmed by sequencing.
Nyckelord
Leptospira; Norway rat; zoonosis; qPCR; microscopic agglutination test
Publicerad i
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
2019, volym: 19, nummer: 6, sidor: 414-420
Utgivare: MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
SLU författare
UKÄ forskningsämne
Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin
Epidemiologi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2017.2262
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/101067