Emprego de estirpes de leptospiras isoladas no Brasil, na microtécnica de soroaglutinação microscópica aplicada ao diagnóstico da leptospirose em rebanhos bovinos de oito estados brasileiros / Use of strains of leptospires isolated in Brazil, for the microscopic agglutination test applied to the diagnosis of leptospirosis in bovine herds of eight Brazilian states

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2010

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Bovine leptospirosis is one of the main reproductive diseases which interferes economically on the livestock and thus it is needed the amelioration of the laboratory diagnostic procedures. The aim of this work is to investigate the adequacy to use autochthonous strains of leptospires isolated in Brazil, added into the antigen collection applied for the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). The reference antigen collection was constituted by the following serovars: Australis, Bratislava, Autumnalis, Butembo, Castellonis, Bataviae, Canicola, Whitcombi, Cynopteri, Grippothyphosa, Hebdomadis, Copenhageni, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Javanica, Panama, Pomona, Pyrogenes, Hardjo, Wolffi, Shermani, Tarassovi, Patoc and Sentot. The ten strains isolated in Brazil included the serovars: Bananal (two strains), Brasiliensis, Canicola (three strains), Copenhageni, Guaricura and Pomona (two strains). By means of non-probability sampling, 109 farms and 9,820 bovines, females at reproductive age were chosen from the 84 municipalities of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina e São Paulo . Among the 9,820 examined animals, 5,806 (59.12%) were reactants to the MAT for any serovar using the 23 reference serovars. Using the collection of reference serovars and the ten autochthonous strains there were 6,400 (65.24%) reactants, and the difference found was significant (p=0.001). The only state with non-significant results in the number of reactants for any serovar was the State of Santa Catarina (p=0.522). Of the 109 properties analyzed, 106 were considered positive at least with one reactant animal by MAT. According to the antigens used, there was no significant difference among the properties. The most probable serovars identified by the collection of reference antigens were Hardjo (43.03%), Shermani (20.00%), Wolfi (9.96%), Grippothyphosa (5.42%) and Pomona (4.28%). With the collection amplified with the ten strains isolated in Brazil, the most probable serovars were Hardjo (31.00%), Guaricura M4/84 (22.50%), Shermani (15.43%), Wolffi (4.76%), Grippothyphosa (3.71%) and Autumnalis (3.24%). The serovar Guaricura, strain M4/84, isolated from bovines and buffaloes in the State of São Paulo, was ranked at the first place as the most probable serovar in the State of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, but the differences observed with the serovar Hardjo were significant only in Mato Grosso (p=0,0001). In São Paulo State, the Guaricura serovar was the second most probable and in the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás the third one. This same strain was the most probable in 27 properties among the 109 examined (24.77%). The addition of autochthonous strains into the MAT antigen collection provided the confirmation of the diagnosis of leptospirosis in 594 animals (6.00%) which have been classified as non-reactants by the reference collection

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autochthonous strains bovines (females) bovinos (fêmeas) diagnosis diagnóstico estirpes autóctones leptospirose leptospirosis microscopic agglutination soroaglutinação microscópica test

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