Seroprevalence of tick-borne-encephalitis virus in wild game in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (north-eastern Germany)

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• 作者：Silvius Frimmel ; MD^a ; ^{silvius.frimmel@med.uni-rostock.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Matthias Leister^a ; Micha Lö ; bermann^a ; Frerk Feldhusen^b ; Matthias Seelmann^b ; Jochen Sü ; ss^c ; Emil Christian Reisinger^a
• 关键词：Tick borne encephalitis ; Tick borne encephalitis virus ; Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; Wild game ; Wild boar ; Deer
• 刊名：Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：7
• 期：6
• 页码：1151-1154
• 全文大小：738 K

文摘

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a federal state in the north east of Germany, has never been a risk area for TBEV infection, but a few autochthonous cases, along with TBEV-RNA detection in ticks, have shown a low level of activity in natural foci of the virus in the past. As wild game and domestic animals have been shown to be useful sentinels for TBEV we examined sera from wild game shot in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the prevalence of TBEV antibodies.

A total of 359 sera from wild game were investigated. All animals were shot in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2012. Thirteen of 359 sera tested positive or borderline for anti-TBEV-IgG with ELISA and four samples tested positive using NT.

The four TBEV-positive sera confirmed by NT constitute the first detection of TBEV-antibodies in sera of wild game in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1986–1989. This underlines that the serological examination of wild game can be a useful tool in defining areas of possible TBEV infection, especially in areas of low TBEV-endemicity.