title: A Serological Survey About Zoonoses in the Verkhoyansk Area, Northeastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation).
abstract: In 2012, a seroprevalence survey concerning 10 zoonoses, which were bacterial (Lyme borreliosis and Q fever), parasitic (alveolar echinococcosis [AE] and cystic echinococcosis [CE], cysticercosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, and trichinellosis), or arboviral (tick-borne encephalitis and West Nile virus infection), was conducted among 77 adult volunteers inhabiting Suordakh and Tomtor Arctic villages in the Verkhoyansk area (Yakutia). Following serological testing by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and/or western blot, no positive result was found for cysticercosis, CE, toxocariasis, trichinellosis, and both arboviral zoonoses. Four subjects (5.2%) had anti-Toxoplasma IgG, without the presence of specific IgM. More importantly, eight subjects (10.4%) tested positive for Lyme borreliosis, two (2.6%) for recently acquired Q fever, and one (1.3%) for AE. Lyme infection and Q fever, whose presence had not been reported so far in Arctic Yakutia, appeared therefore to be a major health threat for people dwelling, sporting, or working in the Arctic area of the Sakha Republic.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Medical Parasitology, Purpan Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .|2 CNRS UMR 5288, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Magnaval
authors.affiliation: 3 National Reference Center for Arboviruses , IRBA, Marseilles, France .
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leparc-Goffart
authors.affiliation: 2 CNRS UMR 5288, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Morgane
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gibert
authors.affiliation: 4 Department of Anatomy, Institute of Medicine, Northeastern Federal University , Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gurieva
authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Toulouse University Hospitals , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Outreville
authors.affiliation: 6 Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medicine, Northeastern Federal University , Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Praskovia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dyachkovskaya
authors.affiliation: 2 CNRS UMR 5288, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fabre
authors.affiliation: 7 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Northeastern Federal University and Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems , Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Sardana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fedorova
authors.affiliation: 8 Cultural History Center for Contemporary Societies, Versailles Saint-Quentin University , Versailles, France .
authors.forename: Dariya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nikolaeva
authors.affiliation: 9 Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.affiliation: 10 Institute of Modern Languages and Regional Studies, Northeastern Federal University , Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Melnitchuk
authors.affiliation: 11 Biopole , Ramonville, France .
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Daviaud-Fabre
authors.affiliation: 2 CNRS UMR 5288, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marty
authors.affiliation: 12 Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North , Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Anatoly
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alekseev
authors.affiliation: 2 CNRS UMR 5288, Toulouse University , Toulouse, France .
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Crubezy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D001102:Arbovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology
keywords: Arctic; Seroepidemiology; Verkhoyansk; Yakutia; Zoonoses