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Occurrence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in meat and dairy goat herds in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
| العنوان: | Occurrence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in meat and dairy goat herds in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
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| المؤلفون: | Andréa Dantas de Medeiros, Milena de Medeiros Clementino Andrade, Ricardo Wagner de Almeida Vítor, Valter Ferreira de Andrade-Neto |
| المصدر: | Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, Vol 23, Iss 4, Pp 481-487 (2014) |
| بيانات النشر: | Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Animal culture |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Infecção por Toxoplasma gondii, caprinos, ELISA de avidez, anticorpos anti-T.gondii, fatores de risco, Animal culture, SF1-1100 |
| الوصف: | Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii, which is the main causative agent of abortion in small ruminants. Goats are among the animals that are most susceptible to this protozoon, and the disease that it causes leads to significant economic losses and has implications for public health, since presence of the parasite in products of goat origin is one of the main sources of human infection. Because of the significant economic impact, there is an urgent need to study the prevalence of T. gondii infection among goats in Sertão do Cabugi, which is the largest goat-producing region in Rio Grande do Norte. In the present study, the ELISA assay was used to test 244 serum samples from nine farms, located in four different municipalities in the Sertão do Cabugi region, which is an important goat-rearing region. The results showed that the prevalence of anti-T. gondii antibodies was 47.1% and that there was a significant association between positivity and the variables of age (≥ 34 months), location (Lajes, Angicos and Afonso Bezerra) and farm (all the farms). The avidity test was applied to all the 115 ELISA-positive samples to distinguish between acute and chronic infection. One hundred and three samples (89.6%) displayed high-avidity antibodies, thus indicating that most of the animals presented chronic infection, with a consequent great impact on the development of the goat production system and a risk to human health. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English Spanish; Castilian Portuguese |
| تدمد: | 1984-2961 |
| العلاقة: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612014000400481&lng=en&tlng=enTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1984-2961Test |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S1984-29612014088 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/01f0b9a2d717406482670447147e03c2Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.01f0b9a2d717406482670447147e03c2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 19842961 |
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| DOI: | 10.1590/S1984-29612014088 |