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Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt
Working horses support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Egypt. No previous study has investigated the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in working horses in Egypt. Faecal samples were collected from 607 working horses recruited from thirty-seven villages/areas in two Egyptian governorates and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584700/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37851181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11250-023-03773-3 |
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author | Salem, Shebl E. Abd El-Ghany, Amany M. Elsheikh, Hussein A. Abdel-Ghany, Enas M. Ras, Refaat |
author_facet | Salem, Shebl E. Abd El-Ghany, Amany M. Elsheikh, Hussein A. Abdel-Ghany, Enas M. Ras, Refaat |
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description | Working horses support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Egypt. No previous study has investigated the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in working horses in Egypt. Faecal samples were collected from 607 working horses recruited from thirty-seven villages/areas in two Egyptian governorates and examined for Cryptosporidium spp. infection using the modified Zielh-Neelsen staining technique. Data on signalment, history of recent diarrhoea, and strongyle burden were collected. The prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection was calculated using a bootstrap method and potential risk factors for infection were investigated using mixed-effects logistic regression models that included sampling location as a random-effects variable. The prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection was 28.7% (95% confidence interval = 23.5–33.9). None of the variables investigated, which include age, sex of the animals, and strongyle burden, were associated with risk of infection. This study provided evidence-based information on the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in the study area. However, the potential zoonotic risk of Cryptosporidium cannot be confirmed until further studies are conducted to genotype these parasites. |
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spelling | pubmed-105847002023-10-20 Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt Salem, Shebl E. Abd El-Ghany, Amany M. Elsheikh, Hussein A. Abdel-Ghany, Enas M. Ras, Refaat Trop Anim Health Prod Regular Articles Working horses support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Egypt. No previous study has investigated the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in working horses in Egypt. Faecal samples were collected from 607 working horses recruited from thirty-seven villages/areas in two Egyptian governorates and examined for Cryptosporidium spp. infection using the modified Zielh-Neelsen staining technique. Data on signalment, history of recent diarrhoea, and strongyle burden were collected. The prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection was calculated using a bootstrap method and potential risk factors for infection were investigated using mixed-effects logistic regression models that included sampling location as a random-effects variable. The prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection was 28.7% (95% confidence interval = 23.5–33.9). None of the variables investigated, which include age, sex of the animals, and strongyle burden, were associated with risk of infection. This study provided evidence-based information on the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in the study area. However, the potential zoonotic risk of Cryptosporidium cannot be confirmed until further studies are conducted to genotype these parasites. Springer Netherlands 2023-10-18 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10584700/ /pubmed/37851181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11250-023-03773-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Regular Articles Salem, Shebl E. Abd El-Ghany, Amany M. Elsheikh, Hussein A. Abdel-Ghany, Enas M. Ras, Refaat Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title | Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title_full | Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title_short | Prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in Egypt |
title_sort | prevalence of cryptosporidium spp. infection in a working horse population in egypt |
topic | Regular Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584700/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37851181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11250-023-03773-3 |
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