Abstract

BALDONE, Valeria Natalia et al. Infectious diseases and reproductive status in european hare (Lepus europaeus) in La Pampa province (Argentina). Acta bioquím. clín. latinoam. [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.4, pp.633-639. ISSN 0325-2957.

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of these diseases and to know the reproductive season of the European hare (Lepus europaeus) in the Province of La Pampa (Argentina). To that aim, 106 hares coming from different places from La Pampa province were sampled. .Nc antibody diagnosis was performed by means of a competitive enzimoimmunoassay (ELISA-c), and an hemo-agglutination indirect assay (HAI) for Tg were carried out to know the disease status. From the total of hares sampled, 40 were male, 66 female (p=0.01) and 13 (19.7%) of them were detected as pregnant. Nc sero-prevalence was 11.4% over a total of 44. From 106 sera analyzed by HAI no one was positive for Tg.

Keywords : Wild animals; Competitive enzimoimmunoassay; Hemo-agglutination indirect assay; Neospora caninum; Toxoplasma gondii.

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