TY - JOUR ID - 86 TI - A serological survey on leptospirosis in aborted dairy cattle in industrial farms of Hamedan suburb, Iran JO - Iranian Journal of Veterinary Research JA - IJVR LA - en SN - 1728-1997 AU - Bahari, A. AU - Abdollahpour, G. AU - Sadeghi-Nasab, A. AU - Sattari Tabrizi, S. AU - Yavari, M. AU - Dadmehr, B. AD - Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Paraveterinary Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran AD - Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - Applied Science Education Center of Amarlou, Jirandeh, Iran Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 337 EP - 339 KW - Leptospirosis KW - Abortion KW - Cattle KW - Microagglutination test DO - 10.22099/ijvr.2011.86 N2 - Leptospirosis is a zoonosis of worldwide distribution, caused by Leptospira interrogans. It is a well known cause of bovine reproductive losses such as abortion, infertility, stillbirth and birth of weak calves. Inthis research, the relationship between the seroprevalence rate of Leptospira spp. infection and abortion inindustrial dairy farms of Hamedan province, Iran was studied. A total of 80 blood samples were taken fromaborted cows in six dairy farms. Sera were tested for antibodies against 6 serovars of Leptospira interrogans(hardjo, pomona, canicola, grippotyphosa, icterohaemorrhagiae and ballum) using microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Antibodies were detected in 18 (22.5%) of the aborted cows, including 17 (21.25%) against L. canicola and 1 (1.25%) against L. pomona. It is concluded that dogs (shepherd and stray) and wild carnivores may have an important role to maintain and transmit the L. canicola infection to the cattle population in this region, therefore, vaccination of cattle and shepherd dogs should be applied. UR - https://ijvr.shirazu.ac.ir/article_86.html L1 - https://ijvr.shirazu.ac.ir/article_86_227f42019294e2de14317f4952d2ce1b.pdf ER -