A serosurvey for spotted fever group Rickettsia and Coxiella burnetii antibodies in rural dogs and foxes, Chile
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Di Cataldo, Sophia
Cevidanes Miranda, Aitor
Ulloa Contreras, Claudia
Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel
Gargano, Valeria
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Antibodies against Spotted Fever Group (SFG) Rickettsia and Coxiella burnetii, investigated through indirect antibody immunofluorescence tests, were detected in serum samples from 3.1% and 0% of 358 rural dogs, respectively, and in none of 32 wild foxes tested. SFG Rickettsia seropositive dogs were only detected in the Mountain Desert (8%) and the Steppe-Mediterranean (9%) regions. Exposure in the Mountain Desert, where no ticks and fleas were found on any dog, could correspond to a new SFG Rickettsia sp. recently described in soft ticks or to a related agent. Our survey confirms low endemicity in the country of C. burnetii, as observed in recent serosurveys in humans.
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Di Cataldo, S., Cevidanes, A., Ulloa-Contreras, C., Hidalgo-Hermoso, E., Gargano, V., Cabello, J., Sacristán, I., Napolitano, C., Gambino, D., Vicari, D., & Millán, J. (2022). A serosurvey for spotted fever group Rickettsia and Coxiella burnetii antibodies in rural dogs and foxes, Chile. Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases, 83, 101769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2022.101769