Determination of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii in aborted bovine foetuses by duplex PCR, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence methods
| Autor: | Selim Çomaklı, Ayse Parmaksiz, Aysel Itik Ekinci, Bunyamin Irehan, Mustafa Özkaraca |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
General Veterinary biology medicine.diagnostic_test Toxoplasma gondii 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification Immunofluorescence Virology Neospora caninum 03 medical and health sciences Duplex pcr embryonic structures parasitic diseases medicine Immunohistochemistry reproductive and urinary physiology |
| Zdroj: | Medycyna Weterynaryjna. 73:346-351 |
| ISSN: | 0025-8628 |
| DOI: | 10.21521/mw.5707 |
| Popis: | This study was aimed at determining the existence of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii in aborted bovine foetuses. In this research, 102 bovine foetuses were examined by duplex PCR, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence to determine the presence of N. caninum and T. gondii. None of the aborted bovine foetuses were shown to have T. gondii, but N. caninum was detected in 26 foetuses (25.49%) by duplex PCR, in 18 (17.64%) by immunohistochemistry and in 8 (7.84%) by immunofluorescence. Moreover, 16 livers, 13 kidneys, 12 spleens, 8 thymuses and 5 brains of the 18 foetuses examined by immunohistochemistry showed immunopositivity. Positive staining was found in the spleen of eight foetuses by the immunofluorescence method. In this study, immunohistochemistry was shown to be superior to immunofluorescence in terms of diagnosis. Although immunofluorescence has the advantage of being the easiest to use in practice, it makes diagnosis more difficult because of its non-specific staining. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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