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. 2014:2014:728516.
doi: 10.1155/2014/728516. Epub 2014 May 22.

Presence of Leishmania and Brucella species in the golden jackal Canis aureus in Serbia

Duško Cirović  1 , Dimosthenis Chochlakis  2 , Snežana Tomanović  3 , Ratko Sukara  3 , Aleksandra Penezić  1 , Yannis Tselentis  4 , Anna Psaroulaki  5
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Presence of Leishmania and Brucella species in the golden jackal Canis aureus in Serbia

Duško Cirović et al. Biomed Res Int. 2014.

Abstract

The golden jackal Canis aureus occurs in south-eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Africa. In Serbia, jackals neared extinction; however, during the last 30 years, the species started to spread quickly and to increase in number. Few studies in the past have revealed their potential role as carriers of zoonotic diseases. Animal samples were collected over a three-year period (01/2010-02/2013) from 12 sites all over Serbia. Of the tissue samples collected, spleen was chosen as the tissue to proceed; all samples were tested for Leishmania species and Brucella species by real-time PCR. Of the 216 samples collected, 15 (6.9%) were positive for Leishmania species, while four (1.9%) were positive for B. canis. The potential epidemiologic role of the golden jackal in carrying and dispersing zoonotic diseases in Serbia should be taken under consideration when applying surveillance monitoring schemes.

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The sites where golden jackals were collected from and the corresponding results after testing for Leishmania and Brucella species by PCR.
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