Revista chilena de infectología : órgano oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectología.
Publisher:
Publicaciones Técnicas Mediterráneo, Ltda.,
Frequency: Four no. a year
Country: Chile
Language: Spanish
Author(s):
Sociedad Chilena de Infectología.
Start Year:1984 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0716-1018 (Print) 0717-6341 (Electronic) 0716-1018 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 9305754 |
| (DNLM): | SR0067774(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 31208807 |
| Classification: | W1 RE348I |
[Seroprevalence of Leptospira spp. in draft horses from indigenous communities in the Araucanía Region, Chile]. In the Araucanía Region there are no studies on the seroprevalence of leptospirosis in horses. Serological samples from 100 draft horses from Mapuche communities of four communes in the region were analyzed using the microMAT technique. The seroprevalence was 35% for at least one serovar of Leptospira spp. being the most frequent serovars canicola (22%), grippotyphosa (21%), hardjo (13%) and pomona (10%). It was evident that the equine populations studied are exposed to infection by Leptospira spp. and reveal a potential risk of transmission to their owners.
[Crazy horse disease]. With the apparition of the crazy cows disease at the end of twentieth century, great was the temptation for denominate "crazy horses disease" an ancient enzootic encephalo-myelitis, known from the 17th century and now named "Borna disease" in 1970, because severe outbreaks affecting horses in this city of Germany since 1885. But the sickness was not a prion disease but a viral one, causing also encephalopathy in several other animal species. After seventy years of investigation, the finding of the virus in human patients with psychiatric pathology in the eighties gave an incentive to work hard...