Journal article
Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Walker Hounds from Virginia
American journal of veterinary research, Vol.56(8), pp.1037-1044
01/01/1995
PMID: 8533975
Abstract
Trypanosomiasis has been reported in dogs from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and South Carolina. We describe the first isolation and characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi from a Walker Hound pup in Virginia that also had postvaccinal distemper. The mother of the pup and 7 of its 8 siblings also were found to be infected with T. cruzi, suggesting that the parasite had been transmitted transplacentally or through lactation. Parasitologic, serologic, histologic, and molecular methods were used to establish the diagnosis of T. cruzi infection in these dogs. In a serologic survey of 12 dogs (including the sire of the pups) from the area in which the index case occurred, none were found to have antibodies to T. cruzi. However, 2 of a further 52 dogs from different areas (to the index case), but in the same county, were seropositive to T. cruzi. These findings indicate that canine trypanosomiasis is present in an area of the United States not previously known to be enzootic.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Walker Hounds from Virginia
- Creators
- S BarrO Van BeekM S Carlisle-NowakJ LopezL V KirchhoffN AllisonA ZajacA De LahuntaD SchlaferW Crandall
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of veterinary research, Vol.56(8), pp.1037-1044
- PMID
- 8533975
- ISSN
- 0002-9645
- eISSN
- 1943-5681
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1995
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984280872302771
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