Seroprevalence and risk factors of infections with Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii in hunting dogs from Campania region, southern Italy

Title:

Seroprevalence and risk factors of infections with Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii in hunting dogs from Campania region, southern Italy

Creator:

Machačová, Tereza, Eva Bártová, Kamil Sedlák, Slezáková, Radka, Marie Budíková, Piantedosi, Diego, and Veneziano, Vincenzo

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:b28acab4-a267-44fb-ae26-e12eb2e10976
uuid:b28acab4-a267-44fb-ae26-e12eb2e10976
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2016.012

Subject:

toxoplazmóza, vlci, toxoplasmosis, wolves, Itálie jižní, Italy, Southern, neosporosis, IFAT, antibody titres, Canis lupus, 2, and 59

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model:article and TEXT

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print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

Hunting dogs have probably a higher level of exposure to Neospora caninum Dubey, Carpenter, Speer, Topper et Uggla, 1988 and Toxoplasma gondii Nicolle et Manceaux, 1908 than other canine populations for their different lifestyle. The aim of our survey was to determine the seroprevalence of N. caninum and T. gondii in hunting dogs from southern Italy and assess risk factors related to these protozoan infections. Blood samples were collected from 398 hunting dogs (19 different breeds, aged from 5 month to 14 years). The sera were screened by indirect fluorescence antibody test; a titre ≥ 50 was considered positive. Antibodies to N. caninum and T. gondii were detected in 59 (15%) dogs with titres from 50 to 3 200 and in 94 (24%) dogs with titres from 50 to 1 600, respectively, with co-infection in 25 (6%) dogs. Statistical difference (p ≤ 0.05) was found only for infection with T. gondii between two age groups: ≥ 2-4 years (16%) and ≥ 4-7 years (33%); other observed characteristics were without statistical significance. Our results suggest that the hunting dogs could play an important role in the transmission cycle of N. caninum between wild animals and livestock. This is the first detection of antibodies to T. gondii in hunting dogs in Italy., Tereza Machačová, Eva Bártová, Kamil Sedlák, Radka Slezáková, Marie Budíková, Diego Piantedosi, Vincenzo Veneziano., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-5

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2016 Volume:63 | Number:1

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