Investigation of Neospora sp. antibodies in aborted mares from Normandy, France

Autor: Pierre-Hugues Pitel, Stéphane Romand, Stéphane Pronost, Daniel Tainturier, Guillaume Fortier, Philippe Thulliez, Gilles Gargala, Karine Maillard, Nathalie Foucher, Claire Collobert-Laugier, Jean Jacques Ballet
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire Départemental du Calvados - Frank Duncombe, Partenaires INRAE, IPP Laboratoire de la Toxoplasmose, Institut de Puériculture et Périnatalogie, LABÉO, Pôle d’analyses et de recherche de Normandie (LABÉO), Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA), Appareil Digestif Environnement Nutrition (ADEN ), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Laboratoire Frank Duncombe, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Nantes
Rok vydání: 2003
Předmět:
Male
040301 veterinary sciences
Antibodies
Protozoan
Polymerase Chain Reaction
030308 mycology & parasitology
Serology
0403 veterinary science
03 medical and health sciences
Neospora
Pregnancy
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Direct agglutination test
Agglutination Tests
parasitic diseases
Prevalence
Fasciola hepatica
Animals
Horses
reproductive and urinary physiology
0303 health sciences
Fetus
[SDV.BA.MVSA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Veterinary medicine and animal Health
General Veterinary
biology
Coccidiosis
Antibody titer
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
Abortion
Veterinary
DNA
Protozoan
biology.organism_classification
Virology
Neospora caninum
3. Good health
Titer
Pregnancy Complications
Parasitic
embryonic structures
Aborted Fetus
Parasitology
Female
Horse Diseases
France
Zdroj: Veterinary Parasitology
Veterinary Parasitology, 2003, 118 (1-2), pp.1-6. ⟨10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.10.007⟩
ISSN: 0304-4017
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.10.007⟩
Popis: International audience; Neospora caninum, an apicomplexan protozoan parasite, is recognized as a major cause of abortion in cattle while limited information is presently available on association between equine Neospora infections and abortions. The aim of the present study was to document prevalence of antibodies against Neospora sp. in aborted mares as a clue to the role of N. caninum in mare reproductive failure in Normandy, France. Using an agglutination test, the number of animals with elevated (>80) anti-Neospora sp. antibody titer was higher in a group of 54 aborted mares than in randomly chosen groups of 45 mares and 76 horses sampled for equine arteritis virus and Fasciola hepatica antibodies, respectively (P
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