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Volume 18(5): 428-431, 2014. Redacted 2017.

Prevalence of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in sheep

 

Maryam Ansari-Lari*1, Arsalan Hosseini2, Sedigheh Gorjipour2, Ghasem Farjani-Kish2                                                                                        

 

1Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health, 2Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71345-1731, Iran

 

ABSTRACT

 

Ansari-Lari M, Hosseini A, Gorjipour S, Farjani-Kish G., Prevalence of Neospora caninum and  Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in sheep, Onl J Vet Res., 18(5): 428-431, 2014.  Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are two coccidian parasites with very similar structures and life cycles. Seroprevalence of N. caninum and T. gondii in naturally exposed sheep slaughtered for food, are reported. Blood samples were collected from 90 female sheep from 15 flocks during slaughter. For serological examination and detection of antibodies, commercial enzyme linked immunosorbent assay were used for both parasites. The prevalence of seropositive animals was 2.2% for T. gondii and 1.1% for N. caninum. This is the first evidence of the N. caninum infection in sheep flocks from Shiraz, Iran.

 

Keywords: Iran, Neospora caninum, Sheep, Toxoplasma gondii.

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