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Epidemiological Observations on Cryptosporidiosis in Diarrheic Goat Kids in Greece

This study aimed at investigating the occurrence of Cryptosporidium spp. in diarrheic goat kids in Greece and the risk factors associated with cryptosporidiosis. Altogether, 292 diarrheic 4–15-day-old goat kids from 54 dairy goat herds of Northern Greece were examined. Oocysts of Cryptosporidium spp...

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Autores principales: Giadinis, Nektarios D., Papadopoulos, Elias, Lafi, Shawkat Q., Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki, Karanikola, Sofia, Diakou, Anastasia, Vergidis, Vergos, Xiao, Lihua, Ioannidou, Evi, Karatzias, Harilaos
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/764193
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author Giadinis, Nektarios D.
Papadopoulos, Elias
Lafi, Shawkat Q.
Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki
Karanikola, Sofia
Diakou, Anastasia
Vergidis, Vergos
Xiao, Lihua
Ioannidou, Evi
Karatzias, Harilaos
author_facet Giadinis, Nektarios D.
Papadopoulos, Elias
Lafi, Shawkat Q.
Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki
Karanikola, Sofia
Diakou, Anastasia
Vergidis, Vergos
Xiao, Lihua
Ioannidou, Evi
Karatzias, Harilaos
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description This study aimed at investigating the occurrence of Cryptosporidium spp. in diarrheic goat kids in Greece and the risk factors associated with cryptosporidiosis. Altogether, 292 diarrheic 4–15-day-old goat kids from 54 dairy goat herds of Northern Greece were examined. Oocysts of Cryptosporidium spp. were detected in 223 of 292 (76.4%) goat kids and the intensity of infection was scored as “high” in 142 samples, “moderate” in 45 samples, and “low” in 36 samples. Larger herds (>200 animals) had higher infection rates than smaller ones, although this difference was not statistically significant. Significantly higher infection rates were observed in herds during late kidding season (1 January to 30 April) compared to the early one (1 September to 31 December). These results suggest that cryptosporidiosis is very common in diarrheic goat kids in Greece, especially in large herds during the late parturition season.
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spelling pubmed-47069562016-01-27 Epidemiological Observations on Cryptosporidiosis in Diarrheic Goat Kids in Greece Giadinis, Nektarios D. Papadopoulos, Elias Lafi, Shawkat Q. Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki Karanikola, Sofia Diakou, Anastasia Vergidis, Vergos Xiao, Lihua Ioannidou, Evi Karatzias, Harilaos Vet Med Int Research Article This study aimed at investigating the occurrence of Cryptosporidium spp. in diarrheic goat kids in Greece and the risk factors associated with cryptosporidiosis. Altogether, 292 diarrheic 4–15-day-old goat kids from 54 dairy goat herds of Northern Greece were examined. Oocysts of Cryptosporidium spp. were detected in 223 of 292 (76.4%) goat kids and the intensity of infection was scored as “high” in 142 samples, “moderate” in 45 samples, and “low” in 36 samples. Larger herds (>200 animals) had higher infection rates than smaller ones, although this difference was not statistically significant. Significantly higher infection rates were observed in herds during late kidding season (1 January to 30 April) compared to the early one (1 September to 31 December). These results suggest that cryptosporidiosis is very common in diarrheic goat kids in Greece, especially in large herds during the late parturition season. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4706956/ /pubmed/26819799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/764193 Text en Copyright © 2015 Nektarios D. Giadinis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Giadinis, Nektarios D.
Papadopoulos, Elias
Lafi, Shawkat Q.
Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki
Karanikola, Sofia
Diakou, Anastasia
Vergidis, Vergos
Xiao, Lihua
Ioannidou, Evi
Karatzias, Harilaos
Epidemiological Observations on Cryptosporidiosis in Diarrheic Goat Kids in Greece
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title_fullStr Epidemiological Observations on Cryptosporidiosis in Diarrheic Goat Kids in Greece
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title_short Epidemiological Observations on Cryptosporidiosis in Diarrheic Goat Kids in Greece
title_sort epidemiological observations on cryptosporidiosis in diarrheic goat kids in greece
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/764193
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