Neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from Vojvodina, Serbia

Neospora caninum, the causative agent of neosporosis, is a protozoan parasite responsible for high rate of abortion in cattle worldwide. In dogs, consequences of infection vary from severe neuromuscular disorders to asymptomatic infection and shedding of environmentally resistant oocysts. In this st...

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Autores principales: Kuruca, Ljiljana, Spasojević-Kosić, Ljubica, Simin, Stanislav, Savović, Milan, Lauš, Saša, Lalošević, Vesna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24152767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2013036
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author Kuruca, Ljiljana
Spasojević-Kosić, Ljubica
Simin, Stanislav
Savović, Milan
Lauš, Saša
Lalošević, Vesna
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Spasojević-Kosić, Ljubica
Simin, Stanislav
Savović, Milan
Lauš, Saša
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description Neospora caninum, the causative agent of neosporosis, is a protozoan parasite responsible for high rate of abortion in cattle worldwide. In dogs, consequences of infection vary from severe neuromuscular disorders to asymptomatic infection and shedding of environmentally resistant oocysts. In this study, we determined the occurrence of N. caninum antibodies in dairy cattle and dogs in Vojvodina (Northern Province of Serbia) and possible risk factors. N. caninum antibodies were found in 15.4% (55/356, CI 95%:12.0–19.6) of cows and 17.2% (17/99, CI 95%: 10.8–26.2) of dogs. Cows from smallholdings showed significantly greater odds (OR = 5.28, CI 95%: 2.0–13.6, p = 0.0006) of being seropositive in comparison to the farm cows. Epidemiological importance of results is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-38063492013-10-28 Neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from Vojvodina, Serbia Kuruca, Ljiljana Spasojević-Kosić, Ljubica Simin, Stanislav Savović, Milan Lauš, Saša Lalošević, Vesna Parasite Research Article Neospora caninum, the causative agent of neosporosis, is a protozoan parasite responsible for high rate of abortion in cattle worldwide. In dogs, consequences of infection vary from severe neuromuscular disorders to asymptomatic infection and shedding of environmentally resistant oocysts. In this study, we determined the occurrence of N. caninum antibodies in dairy cattle and dogs in Vojvodina (Northern Province of Serbia) and possible risk factors. N. caninum antibodies were found in 15.4% (55/356, CI 95%:12.0–19.6) of cows and 17.2% (17/99, CI 95%: 10.8–26.2) of dogs. Cows from smallholdings showed significantly greater odds (OR = 5.28, CI 95%: 2.0–13.6, p = 0.0006) of being seropositive in comparison to the farm cows. Epidemiological importance of results is discussed. EDP Sciences 2013 2013-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3806349/ /pubmed/24152767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2013036 Text en © L. Kuruca et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2013 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Savović, Milan
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Neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from Vojvodina, Serbia
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title_fullStr Neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from Vojvodina, Serbia
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title_short Neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from Vojvodina, Serbia
title_sort neospora caninum antibodies in dairy cows and domestic dogs from vojvodina, serbia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24152767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2013036
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