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RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages 146-154Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2017.03.017
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Domestic animals; Leptospira weillii; Nan province; Thailand; Pathogenic Leptospira; Zoonosis
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- Chulalongkorn University Graduate Scholarship
- 90th Anniversary of Chulalongkorn University (Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund) [GCUGR1125593078M, 67]
- National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) [P-13-50120]
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Leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease that is often associated with animal carriers and contamination of the environment via infected urine. This study aimed to assess pathogenic leptospiral carriage in Nan province, a rural area of Thailand where leptospirosis is endemic. Samples from 20 villages were obtained during the period 2013 to 2016, comprising urine samples collected from asymptomatic people (n = 37) and domestic animals (n = 342), and environmental water samples (n = 14). Leptospira were cultured in Ellinghauson McCullough Johnson and Harris (EMJH) media. An rrs nested PCR identified 9.92% (95% confidence interval (CI)6.96-12.88) of the urine and water samples as being positive for Leptospira spp., and phylogenetic analysis was conducted on the 443 bp amplicons. Leptospira weilii, which has not previously been identified in Thailand, was recovered from 13 cattle, 9 pigs, 2 dogs, 2 water samples and 1 goat. L. interrogans was found in 4 dogs, 3 pigs, 3 cattle, 1 human and 1 water sample. Four leptospiral strains were isolated and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis was performed on these. Three novel sequence types were identified, including two singletons of L. interrogans in ST26 and ST33, and one of L. weilii in ST94, with this having a close relationship to previous isolates from cases of human leptospirosis in Laos and China. Our results revealed that pathogenic Leptospira occur commonly in asymptomatic domestic animals, humans and environmental water samples in Nan Province, and emphasize the high potential for zoonotic transmission in the province.
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