ELISA-seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in draught horses in Greater Cairo, Egypt

Toxoplasma gondii is one of the important zoonotic parasites of worldwide. In this paper the seroprevalence of T. gondii in draught horses (3-15 years) including 90 males and 10 females in the first half of the year 2009 was studied. The result showed that the overall ELISA-T. gondii antibodies were...

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Published inJournal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology Vol. 39; no. 3; p. 821
Main Authors Haridy, Fouad M, Shoukry, Nahla M, Hassan, Aly Awad, Morsy, Tosson A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Egypt 01.12.2009
Subjects
Animals
Antibodies, Protozoan - blood
Egypt - epidemiology
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Female
Horse Diseases - epidemiology
Horse Diseases - transmission
Horses
Humans
Male
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Toxoplasma - immunology
Toxoplasmosis - epidemiology
Toxoplasmosis - transmission
Toxoplasmosis, Animal - epidemiology
Toxoplasmosis, Animal - transmission
Zoonoses
Egypt
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Summary:Toxoplasma gondii is one of the important zoonotic parasites of worldwide. In this paper the seroprevalence of T. gondii in draught horses (3-15 years) including 90 males and 10 females in the first half of the year 2009 was studied. The result showed that the overall ELISA-T. gondii antibodies were 25% of the horses in Greater Cairo, 50% (females) and 22.2% (males).
ISSN:1110-0583