Urinary shedding of leptospires in palearctic bats
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/86652079:_____/21:00542992 RIV/62156489:43410/21:43919403 RIV/62157124:16170/21:43879783 RIV/62157124:16270/21:43879783 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121394
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tbed.14011" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tbed.14011</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.14011" target="_blank" >10.1111/tbed.14011</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urinary shedding of leptospires in palearctic bats
Original language description
Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonotic infection of worldwide occurrence. Bats, like other mammalian reservoirs, may be long-term carriers that maintain endemicity of infection and shed viable leptospires in urine. Direct and/or indirect contact with these Leptospira shedders is the main risk factor as regards public health concern. However, knowledge about bat leptospirosis in the Palearctic Region, and in Europe in particular, is poor. We collected urine from 176 specimens of 11 bat species in the Czech Republic, Poland, Republic of Armenia and the Altai Region of Russia between 2014 and 2019. We extracted DNA from the urine samples to detect Leptospira spp. shedders using PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA and LipL32 genes. Four bat species (Barbastella barbastellus n = 1, Myotis bechsteinii n = 1, Myotis myotis n = 24 and Myotis nattereri n = 1) tested positive for Leptospira spp., with detected amplicons showing 100% genetic identity with pathogenic Leptospira interrogans. The site- and species-specific prevalence range was 0%-24.1% and 0%-20%, respectively. All bats sampled in the Republic of Armenia and Russia were negative. Given the circulation of pathogenic leptospires in strictly protected Palearctic bat species and their populations, non-invasive and non-lethal sampling of urine for molecular Leptospira spp. detection is recommended as a suitable surveillance and monitoring strategy. Moreover, our results should raise awareness of this potential disease risk among health professionals, veterinarians, chiropterologists and wildlife rescue workers handling bats, as well as speleologists and persons cleaning premises following bat infestation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40301 - Veterinary science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
ISSN
1865-1674
e-ISSN
1865-1682
Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
3089-3095
UT code for WoS article
000626853900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102243739