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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China

Toxoplasma gondii infections are prevalent in animals and humans worldwide. In the present investigation, the seroprevalence of T. gondii in goats was investigated in Hunan province, subtropical China between March 2014 and December 2015. A total of 1,028 serum samples collected from 14 administrati...

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Autores principales: Li, Fen, Wang, Shi-Ping, Wang, Chang-Jian, He, Shi-Cheng, Wu, Xiang, Liu, Guo-Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDP Sciences 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27762212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2016053
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author Li, Fen
Wang, Shi-Ping
Wang, Chang-Jian
He, Shi-Cheng
Wu, Xiang
Liu, Guo-Hua
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description Toxoplasma gondii infections are prevalent in animals and humans worldwide. In the present investigation, the seroprevalence of T. gondii in goats was investigated in Hunan province, subtropical China between March 2014 and December 2015. A total of 1,028 serum samples collected from 14 administrative regions of Hunan province were evaluated by the indirect hemagglutination test (IHAT) for the detection of specific antibodies. Antibodies to T. gondii were detected in 124 serum samples (12%). The T. gondii seroprevalence ranged from 1.7% to 19% among different regions in subtropical China, and the differences were statistically significant (p < 0.01). The results of the present survey indicated that T. gondii infection is prevalent in goats in Hunan, which poses a potential risk for human infection with T. gondii in this province.
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spelling pubmed-50758322016-11-08 Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China Li, Fen Wang, Shi-Ping Wang, Chang-Jian He, Shi-Cheng Wu, Xiang Liu, Guo-Hua Parasite Short Note Toxoplasma gondii infections are prevalent in animals and humans worldwide. In the present investigation, the seroprevalence of T. gondii in goats was investigated in Hunan province, subtropical China between March 2014 and December 2015. A total of 1,028 serum samples collected from 14 administrative regions of Hunan province were evaluated by the indirect hemagglutination test (IHAT) for the detection of specific antibodies. Antibodies to T. gondii were detected in 124 serum samples (12%). The T. gondii seroprevalence ranged from 1.7% to 19% among different regions in subtropical China, and the differences were statistically significant (p < 0.01). The results of the present survey indicated that T. gondii infection is prevalent in goats in Hunan, which poses a potential risk for human infection with T. gondii in this province. EDP Sciences 2016-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5075832/ /pubmed/27762212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2016053 Text en © F. Li et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2016 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Li, Fen
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title_full Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title_fullStr Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title_full_unstemmed Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title_short Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in goats in Hunan province, China
title_sort seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii in goats in hunan province, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27762212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2016053
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