Associação entre a presença de anticorpos anti-Leishmania sp. e anti-Neospora caninum em cães de Bauru, SP / Association between the presence of anti-Leishmania sp. and anti-Neospora caninum antibodies in dogs from Bauru, Brazil

ABSTRACT

The survey analyzed 100 samples of serum collected from dogs at the Center for Zoonoses Control of Bauru, randomly chosen. In the study, 65 percent of the samples were positive for leishmaniasis and 14 percent for neosporosis. The association between the presence of antibodies by the reaction of indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT) in the detection of anti-Leishmania and anti-Neospora antibodies was examined by the Fischer Exact Test (P=0.41), indicating no association between the results for Leishmania sp. and Neospora caninum (α=0.05). The absolute frequencies of the IFAT in the detection of antibodies anti-Leishmania and anti-Neospora caninum were analyzed using the Spearmann correlation coefficient for Leishmania and N. caninum titters, r=0.0975 and P=0.33, which did not indicate significant correlation between the titters for both pathogens.