Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in slaughtered free-range and broiler chickens
| Autor: | Teresa A. Coutinho, Filipa T. Rodrigues, Ana Patrícia Lopes, Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira, Jitender P. Dubey, Luís Cardoso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Veterinary medicine animal structures 030231 tropical medicine Antibodies Protozoan Serology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Seroepidemiologic Studies Direct agglutination test parasitic diseases medicine Animals Animal Husbandry General Veterinary biology Zoonosis Broiler food and beverages Toxoplasma gondii General Medicine 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Specific antibody Toxoplasmosis Animal Parasitology biology.protein Antibody Chickens Toxoplasma |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary parasitology. 271 |
| ISSN: | 1873-2550 |
| Popis: | The consumption of undercooked infected chicken can be a source of infection for humans and carnivores regarding the zoonotic protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Furthermore, free-range chickens are sentinels for the presence of T. gondii oocysts in the environment because they feed from the ground. By using the modified agglutination test (MAT), we investigated the presence of antibodies to T. gondii in 178 free-range and 170 broiler chickens raised indoors and slaughtered in Portugal. Prevalence of specific antibodies was 5.6% in free-range and 0.0% in broiler chickens raised indoors (p = 0.002). |
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