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ISSN 1328-925X
Volume 22 (11):1014-1020, 2018.
Prevalence of Leptospira
by PCR in suspect refugees and animals in Iraq.
Hana Abdel Latif Yassin and Hanen Kamel Abbas
ABSTRACT
Latif
Yassin HA, Abbas HK., Prevalence of Leptospira by PCR in suspect
refugees and animals in Iraq.
Onl J Vet Res., 22 (11):1014-1020, 2018. One hundred and twenty subjects with signs of
renal failure, viral hepatitis B or C, or miscarriage were referred from
refugee camps in Anbar, Iraq. Sixty serum and urine samples were taken for
detection of leptospira
by PCR. We also processed 60 serum and 40 urine samples from cattle, sheep and
goats suspect of leptospira
from veterinary centers. We found only 2/60 positive urine samples in humans,
2/40 in cow urine and 1/60 in bovine blood. By PCR, the 16SrRNA gene bands may
not have detected leptospira in human serum but did
in urine of two patients with kidney failure. In these individuals the presence
of lepstospira may have been due to contact with
urine of carrier animals or contaminated streams, ponds, marshes or soils. In
cows using PCR 16SrRNA confirmed by another PCR LipL32 gene we found 3 positive
for leptospira but none in sheep or goats.
Key-Words:Leptospira, PCR, human, animal, Incidence.
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