Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Detection ofin Urban Swedish Rats: Pest Control Interventions as a Promising Source of Rats Used for Surveillance.
- Journal:
- Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Strand, Tanja M et al.
- Affiliation:
- 1 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology
- Species:
- rodent
Abstract
Rat carcasses obtained from pest control interventions can potentially be used for an efficient surveillance of zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis. To evaluate the performance of different laboratory methods for detection of pathogenicspp., heart and kidney samples from wild Norway rats were analyzed by microscopic agglutination test (MAT, the gold standard), a commercial IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and by an optimized quantitative PCR (qPCR, followed by sequencing). We foundqPCR to be as sensitive as MAT for screening ofinfection in pest control rats and selectedqPCR for a larger screening of rats from urban and rural areas in central and southern Sweden. We identifiedqPCR positive rats from the cities Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö, which were further confirmed by sequencing.
Find similar cases for your pet
PetCaseFinder finds other peer-reviewed reports of pets with the same symptoms, plus a plain-English summary of what was tried across them.
Search related cases →Original publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30785372/