A5002565498- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Animal health and immunology
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
2016-2025
Leptospirosis is an infectious disease widely reported in veterinary practice and a worldwide zoonosis. In Northeastern Italy, different serogroups genotypes of Leptospira have been described ill dogs, the most commonly detected being Icterohaemorragiae (ICT) ST 17, Australis (AUS) 24 198, Pomona (POM) 117 289, Sejroe (SEJ) 155. However, there little information available on environmental exposure to wild synanthropic animals. The aim this study was identify circulating potential reservoirs...
Leptospirosis in dogs has been largely described worldwide, and epidemiological studies have mainly based on serological data. This study aims to detect genotype leptospires affecting symptomatic Northeast Italy between 2013 2019. Overall, 1631 were tested using real-time PCR, from 193 subjected Multilocus Sequence Typing a Multiple Loci Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis. Leptospires successfully isolated 15 dogs. Six distinct Types (STs) found for 135 leptospires, with 3 STs...
Stray cats potentially act as reservoir for zoonotic agents, posing a risk of exposure to humans and domestic cats. The most prevalent Chlamydiaceae species in is Chlamydia (C.) felis, which frequently associated with conjunctivitis and/or upper respiratory disease. potential C. felis believed be relatively low, although possible through handling infected cats, by contact their aerosol, via fomites. Infection more frequent conditions overcrowding, stress, poor hygiene impairment the immune...
SUMMARY Zoonotic strains of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Europe have been reported to belong genotypes 3 and 4. In 2012 2013, 57 pig farms Northern Italy that had previously resulted seropositive for HEV were surveyed the presence virus, with positive samples subsequently genotyped. Hepatitis RNA was identified 17/57 (29·8%) farms. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated distinct subtypes genotype circulating north-east Italy; as well, first time Italian swine population, 4 attributed subtype d.
SUMMARY We determined the hepatitis E virus (HEV) seroprevalence and detection rate in commercial swine herds Italy's utmost pig-rich area, assessed HEV seropositivity risk humans as a function of occupational exposure to pigs, diet, foreign travel, medical history hunting activities. During 2011–2014, 2700 sera from 300 were tested for anti-HEV IgG. RNA was searched 959 faecal pools HEV-seropositive liver/bile/muscle samples 179 pigs HEV-positive herds. A cohort study workers ( n = 149)...
Despite the reported increase in SARS-CoV-2-infected pets, description of clinical features from natural infection and medical follow up symptomatic pets is still not sufficiently documented. This study reports case an indoor cat that displayed respiratory signs a gastrointestinal syndrome, following COVID-19 diagnosis his owners. Thoracic radiographies were suggestive bronchial pneumonia, while blood tests indicative mild inflammatory process. Nasal oropharyngeal swabs tested positive...
Kennels may represent high-risk environments for the diffusion of Leptospira infection in dogs and consequently a threat to public health. This study describes an outbreak kennel Italy 2020, both with clinically ill asymptomatic dogs. Fifty-nine dogs, including three were tested spp. by microscopic agglutination test (MAT) real-time qPCR. Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) analysis was used genotype identified leptospires. Thirty fifty-nine (50.9%) had MAT titer and/or molecular positivity...
Leptospirosis is one of the most widespread zoonotic diseases and can infect both humans animals worldwide. The role cat as a susceptible host potential environmental reservoir Leptospira still not well understood, due to lack obvious clinical signs associated with spp. infection in this species. This study aims describe first European detection interrogans serogroup Australis ST 24 young outdoor severe comorbidity (feline panleukopenia virus). In addition, results preliminary conducted...
Abortifacient pathogens induce substantial economic losses in the livestock industry worldwide, and many of these are zoonotic, impacting human health. As Brucella spp., Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira Listeria monocytogenes cause abortion, rapid differential molecular diagnostic tests needed to facilitate early accurate detection abortion establish effective control measures. However, available methods laborious, time-consuming, or costly. Therefore, we developed validated a novel multiplex...
Dogs and cats are susceptible to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). During the pandemic, several studies have been performed on owned dogs, whereas limited data available exposure stray animals. The objective of this study was investigate SARS-CoV-2 feral kennel dogs in northeastern Italy, through serological molecular methods. From May 2021 September 2022, public health veterinary services collected serum, oropharyngeal, rectal swab samples from 257 free-roaming...
Influenza A virus (IAV) can cause high morbidity and mortality in domestic wild avian species it is able to infect mammals as well. IAV cats sporadic self-limiting but the recent findings of pathogenicity influenza (HPAIV) with genetic signatures mammalian adaptation, cats, has raised new concerns about potential role ecology. The present study aimed investigate circulation companion animals' shelters North-eastern Italy. All samples were collected from feral living feline colonies that...