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monitoring of leptospirosis seroprevalence in a colony of captive collared peccaries (tayassu tajacu) from the peruvian amazon.leptospirosis, an endemic zoonoses, is maintained in the environment by several wildlife species in the peruvian amazon. in order to evaluate the possible role of collared peccaries (cp) in the maintenance this disease, two serological surveys of leptospirosis were performed and zootechnical parameters were monitored in a captive cp colony in an interval of 27 months. total seroprevalence changed from 100% (n=27) to 86.4% (n=22), with reactions to a diversity of serogroups of zoonotic importance ...200919000627
serologic survey for evidence of exposure to vesicular stomatitis virus, pseudorabies virus, brucellosis and leptospirosis in collared peccaries from arizona.two hundred eighteen usable serum samples were collected from hunter-killed collared peccaries (tayassu tajacu) during march 1986, in three areas of arizona. evaluations for antibodies against vesicular stomatitis virus (vsv) new jersey (nj) type, vsv indiana type, pseudorabies virus, brucellosis, and leptospirosis revealed positive test results in 8%, 0%, less than 1%, 0%, and 23% of the sera, respectively. exposure of peccaries to vsv (nj) was widespread, but variation in the prevalence of ser ...19872824864
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