1. A Serological Survey About Zoonoses in the Verkhoyansk Area, Northeastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation).
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Magnaval, Jean-François, Leparc-Goffart, Isabelle, Gibert, Morgane, Gurieva, Alla, Outreville, Jonathan, Dyachkovskaya, Praskovia, Fabre, Richard, Fedorova, Sardana, Nikolaeva, Dariya, Dubois, Damien, Melnitchuk, Olga, Daviaud-Fabre, Pascale, Marty, Marie, Alekseev, Anatoly, and Crubezy, Eric
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ZOONOSES ,SEROPREVALENCE ,PUBLIC health ,ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay ,WESTERN immunoblotting ,DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
In 2012, a seroprevalence survey concerning 10 zoonoses, which were bacterial (Lyme borreliosis and Q fever), parasitic (alveolar echinococcosis [AE] and cystic echinococcosis [CE], cysticercosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, and trichinellosis), or arboviral (tick-borne encephalitis and West Nile virus infection), was conducted among 77 adult volunteers inhabiting Suordakh and Tomtor Arctic villages in the Verkhoyansk area (Yakutia). Following serological testing by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and/or western blot, no positive result was found for cysticercosis, CE, toxocariasis, trichinellosis, and both arboviral zoonoses. Four subjects (5.2%) had anti- Toxoplasma IgG, without the presence of specific IgM. More importantly, eight subjects (10.4%) tested positive for Lyme borreliosis, two (2.6%) for recently acquired Q fever, and one (1.3%) for AE. Lyme infection and Q fever, whose presence had not been reported so far in Arctic Yakutia, appeared therefore to be a major health threat for people dwelling, sporting, or working in the Arctic area of the Sakha Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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