Serological survey of Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in companion animals rescued from hoarding behavior cases in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Serological survey of Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in companion animals rescued from hoarding behavior cases in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Received 13th July, 2019; Received in revised form 09th August, 2019; Accepted 26th September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Graziela Ribeiro da Cunha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This report has aimed to serosurvey Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in two animal hoarding cases in Curitiba, Brazil. Blood samples from 15 dogs and 12 cats were tested, of which 3/15 (20.0%) dogs and 1/12 (8.3%) cat were seropositive to Leptospira spp. and 1/15 (6.6%) dog and 4/12 (33.3%) cats positive to T. gondii. The present report may be the first description of T. gondii and Leptospira spp. antibody status in dog and cat hoarding cases of Brazil. Despite low frequencies, these results have suggested that companion animals in hoarding conditions may act as sentinels for environmental contamination.
