Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in Sika Deer from Eastern Hokkaido, Japan
| Autor: | Akimasa Kudo, Haruka Fukui, Yuko Masukata, Masakazu Nishimura, Makoto Igarashi, Ryuichiro Maeda, Hikaru Kamiya, Atsushi Saito, Rika Kano, Yoshitaka Omata, Naotaka Ishiguro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Veterinary medicine Antibodies Protozoan Biology Polymerase Chain Reaction Serology law.invention Japan law parasitic diseases Prevalence medicine Animals Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Polymerase chain reaction Ecology Coccidiosis Deer Neospora Brain Toxoplasma gondii DNA Protozoan medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology Toxoplasmosis Neospora caninum Latex fixation test Toxoplasmosis Animal biology.protein Female Antibody Toxoplasma Latex Fixation Tests Cervus nippon yesoensis |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 41:454-458 |
| ISSN: | 0090-3558 |
| Popis: | Brain and serum were collected from 120 and 12 free-ranging sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis), respectively, from six regions in eastern Hokkaido during controlled hunts in the autumn of 2003. Brains were tested for Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were measured by means of a latex agglutination test. No brain tested positive for either type of DNA, and no antibody to Toxoplasma gondii was detected in serum, suggesting a low prevalence of infection with these organisms in free-ranging sika deer from eastern Hokkaido. Further examination of multiple tissues by PCR and serologic surveys will be necessary to confirm this. |
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