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Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Bovine cysticercosis is defined as a foodborne parasitic zoonotic disease of cattle caused by the larval stage of the human tapeworm Taenia saginata. In Botswana, bovine cysticercosis has inflicted major economic consequences on the beef industry due to downgrading, condemnation,...

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Autores principales: Mazhani, Batatu, Masitha, Elly, Ntwaetsile, Mpho, Thutwa, Ketshephaone, Sehularo, Kerapetse
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Publicado: Veterinary World 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35400945
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2022.368-373
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author Mazhani, Batatu
Masitha, Elly
Ntwaetsile, Mpho
Thutwa, Ketshephaone
Sehularo, Kerapetse
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Masitha, Elly
Ntwaetsile, Mpho
Thutwa, Ketshephaone
Sehularo, Kerapetse
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description BACKGROUND AND AIM: Bovine cysticercosis is defined as a foodborne parasitic zoonotic disease of cattle caused by the larval stage of the human tapeworm Taenia saginata. In Botswana, bovine cysticercosis has inflicted major economic consequences on the beef industry due to downgrading, condemnation, or treatment of infected carcasses. Thus, in this study, we aim to (1) estimate the prevalence of bovine cysticercosis in Botswana’s southeastern districts, (2) describe the distribution of bovine cysticercosis through geospatial mapping, and (3) investigate the effect of seasonality on bovine cysticercosis occurrence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted using abattoir records of cattle slaughtered from August 2015 to July 2016. In total, 13 licensed non-export abattoirs were selected for this study, wherein 26,827 cattle were slaughtered during this period. Detection of cysticerci from the carcass and offal was carried out by meat inspectors visually during meat inspection. Prevalence of bovine cysticercosis was calculated for the extension areas and veterinary districts for each month and form there used to establish its distribution and seasonality. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. RESULTS: The prevalence of bovine cysticercosis in the southeastern districts of Botswana during this study period was determined to be 6.2%. The prevalence in the veterinary districts differed significantly at p<=0.000. Seasonality did not have a significant (p=0.651) effect on the prevalence of bovine cysticercosis. Geospatially, areas with greater than 8% prevalence were mainly located in the southernmost part of the study area. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of bovine cysticercosis was 6.2% during the study period. No previous studies on cysticerci prevalence in the study area was conducted; thus, it was not possible to determine whether there has been an increase or decrease in terms of prevalence rate. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as a baseline for the prevalence of cysticerci in the study area.
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spelling pubmed-89803852022-04-08 Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016 Mazhani, Batatu Masitha, Elly Ntwaetsile, Mpho Thutwa, Ketshephaone Sehularo, Kerapetse Vet World Research Article BACKGROUND AND AIM: Bovine cysticercosis is defined as a foodborne parasitic zoonotic disease of cattle caused by the larval stage of the human tapeworm Taenia saginata. In Botswana, bovine cysticercosis has inflicted major economic consequences on the beef industry due to downgrading, condemnation, or treatment of infected carcasses. Thus, in this study, we aim to (1) estimate the prevalence of bovine cysticercosis in Botswana’s southeastern districts, (2) describe the distribution of bovine cysticercosis through geospatial mapping, and (3) investigate the effect of seasonality on bovine cysticercosis occurrence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted using abattoir records of cattle slaughtered from August 2015 to July 2016. In total, 13 licensed non-export abattoirs were selected for this study, wherein 26,827 cattle were slaughtered during this period. Detection of cysticerci from the carcass and offal was carried out by meat inspectors visually during meat inspection. Prevalence of bovine cysticercosis was calculated for the extension areas and veterinary districts for each month and form there used to establish its distribution and seasonality. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. RESULTS: The prevalence of bovine cysticercosis in the southeastern districts of Botswana during this study period was determined to be 6.2%. The prevalence in the veterinary districts differed significantly at p<=0.000. Seasonality did not have a significant (p=0.651) effect on the prevalence of bovine cysticercosis. Geospatially, areas with greater than 8% prevalence were mainly located in the southernmost part of the study area. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of bovine cysticercosis was 6.2% during the study period. No previous studies on cysticerci prevalence in the study area was conducted; thus, it was not possible to determine whether there has been an increase or decrease in terms of prevalence rate. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as a baseline for the prevalence of cysticerci in the study area. Veterinary World 2022-02 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8980385/ /pubmed/35400945 http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2022.368-373 Text en Copyright: © Mazhani, et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mazhani, Batatu
Masitha, Elly
Ntwaetsile, Mpho
Thutwa, Ketshephaone
Sehularo, Kerapetse
Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title_full Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title_fullStr Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title_full_unstemmed Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title_short Distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of Botswana from 2015 to 2016
title_sort distribution of bovine cysticercosis prevalence in the southeastern districts of botswana from 2015 to 2016
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35400945
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2022.368-373
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