Prevalence and distribution of infectious and parasitic agents in roe deer from Spain and their possible role as reservoirs
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Title: | Prevalence and distribution of infectious and parasitic agents in roe deer from Spain and their possible role as reservoirs |
Author: | Morrondo Pelayo, María Patrocinio Pérez Creo, Ana Prieto, Alberto Cabanelas Dopazo, Eva Díaz Cao, José Manuel Arias Vázquez, María Sol Díaz Fernández, Pablo Pajares Bernaldo de Quirós, Gerardo Remesar Alonso, Susana López Sández, Ceferino M. Fernández, Gonzalo Díez Baños, Pablo Panadero Fontán, Rosario |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Patoloxía Animal |
Subject: | Bacteria | Parasites | Roe deer | Spain | Viruses | |
Date of Issue: | 2017-04 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Morrondo, M. P., Pérez-Creo, A., Prieto, A., Cabanelas, E., Díaz-Cao, J. M., Arias, M. S., ... & Fernández, G. (2017). Prevalence and distribution of infectious and parasitic agents in roe deer from Spain and their possible role as reservoirs. Italian Journal of Animal Science, 16(2), 266-274 |
Abstract: | In order to provide up-to-date information about the prevalence of infectious and parasitic agents in Spanish roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), samples from 93 animals hunted from January 2013 to April 2015 were collected and analysed by parasitological, serological and molecular techniques. Sampled animals came from four roe deer populations corresponding to Oceanic, Continental, Mediterranean and Mountainous ecosystems of Spain. Data regarding sex, age and year were also considered. A high percentage of roe deer (95.7%) resulted positive for at least one agent. Sarcocystis spp. was the most frequently diagnosed genus (88.8%), followed by gastrointestinal nematodes (62.9%) and Schmallenberg virus (53.5%). Varestrongylus capreoli (38%), Anaplasma phagocitophylum (34.2%), Eimeria spp. (29.2%), Toxoplasma gondii (25%) and Cephenemyia stimulator (23.8%) displayed medium prevalences and, finally low percentages were registered for Moniezia spp. (6.7%), Dictyocaulus noerneri (2.4%) and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (1.5%). No infections by Neospora caninum, Bovine herpesvirus, pestivirus or Coxiella burnetii were found. Climate was significantly associated with the prevalence of T. gondii, C. stimulator and A. phagocitophylum, with higher prevalences in animals from Oceanic and Mediterranean areas. Our results suggest that infections affecting Spanish roe deer, especially those of parasitic aetiology, represent one of the causes of the descent in the abundance of this ungulate in the last years. Moreover, the high prevalence of zoonotic agents such as T. gondii and A. phagocitophylum could also have a great relevance in the environmental and/or Public Health. |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2016.1245593 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15936 |
DOI: | 10.1080/1828051X.2016.1245593 |
E-ISSN: | 1828-051X |
Rights: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited