Serologic survey for antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in white-tailed deer in Ontario
| Autor: | Ian K. Barker, H Artsob, G J Gallivan, Dennis R. Voigt, Louis A. Magnarelli, J T Robinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Veterinary medicine
animal diseases Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Odocoileus Serology Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi Group parasitic diseases medicine Prevalence Seroprevalence Animals Borrelia burgdorferi Fluorescent Antibody Technique Indirect Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Ontario Lyme Disease Ecology biology Ixodes Deer bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology Antibodies Bacterial Ixodes scapularis biology.protein Arachnid Vectors Antibody |
| Zdroj: | Journal of wildlife diseases. 34(2) |
| ISSN: | 0090-3558 |
| Popis: | Serum samples collected from 623 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in southern Ontario (Canada) from 1985 to 1989 were tested for antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi using an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) staining method. Samples from 150 of the deer were also tested using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). At IFA titers of 1:64 and 1:128 deer with antibodies to B. burgdorferi appeared to be widespread throughout southern Ontario, with an apparent prevalence ranging from 3 to 47%. At IFA titresor = 1:256 and ELISA titresor = 1:160 deer with antibodies to B. burgdorferi were only present on Long Point which is the only known endemic focus of Ixodes scapularis, the primary vector for B. burgdorferi, in southern Ontario. At these titres the apparent prevalence of antibodies to B. burgdorferi on Long Point was only 5 to 7%, even though the mean intensity of infestation of adult I. scapularis on deer was180, and 60% of the adult ticks are infected with B. burgdorferi. Based on these results, white-tailed deer do not appear to be a good sentinel species for the distribution of B. burgdorferi. |
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