Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China

In the present study, serum samples from 650 goats were collected from five counties between May and June 2012 and antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were detected by indirect haemagglutination assay; 58 (9%) had antibodies to T. gondii with antibody titres of 1:64 to 1:1024. Seropositive samples were...

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Main Authors:	Xu, Peng, Li, Xia, Guo, Ling, Li, Bing, Wang, Jun, Yu, Di, Zhao, Quan, Liu, Xiao-Gang
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Language:	English
Published:	EDP Sciences 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027814/

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spelling	pubmed-40278142014-05-21 Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China Xu, Peng Li, Xia Guo, Ling Li, Bing Wang, Jun Yu, Di Zhao, Quan Liu, Xiao-Gang Short Note In the present study, serum samples from 650 goats were collected from five counties between May and June 2012 and antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were detected by indirect haemagglutination assay; 58 (9%) had antibodies to T. gondii with antibody titres of 1:64 to 1:1024. Seropositive samples were distributed in all five counties: seroprevalences in Kuandian county (15%, 21/139, 95% confidence interval [CI] 9–21%) were statistically different from the four other counties (Gaizhou, Huanren, Xiuyan and Liaoyang), and the seroprevalence difference between Xiuyan county (12%, 15/127, 95% CI 6–17%) and two other counties (Huanren, Liaoyang) was significantly different (P < 0.05). To our knowledge, this is the first report of the seroprevalence of T. gondii exposure in Liaoning cashmere goat in China. Our results indicated that Liaoning cashmere goat could be a potential reservoir for the transmission of T. gondii in Liaoning Province. EDP Sciences 2014 2014-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4027814/ /pubmed/24845552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014023 Text en © P. Xu et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2014 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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author	Xu, Peng Li, Xia Guo, Ling Li, Bing Wang, Jun Yu, Di Zhao, Quan Liu, Xiao-Gang
spellingShingle	Xu, Peng Li, Xia Guo, Ling Li, Bing Wang, Jun Yu, Di Zhao, Quan Liu, Xiao-Gang Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
author_facet	Xu, Peng Li, Xia Guo, Ling Li, Bing Wang, Jun Yu, Di Zhao, Quan Liu, Xiao-Gang
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title	Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
title_short	Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
title_full	Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
title_fullStr	Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
title_full_unstemmed	Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China
title_sort	seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern china
description	In the present study, serum samples from 650 goats were collected from five counties between May and June 2012 and antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were detected by indirect haemagglutination assay; 58 (9%) had antibodies to T. gondii with antibody titres of 1:64 to 1:1024. Seropositive samples were distributed in all five counties: seroprevalences in Kuandian county (15%, 21/139, 95% confidence interval [CI] 9–21%) were statistically different from the four other counties (Gaizhou, Huanren, Xiuyan and Liaoyang), and the seroprevalence difference between Xiuyan county (12%, 15/127, 95% CI 6–17%) and two other counties (Huanren, Liaoyang) was significantly different (P < 0.05). To our knowledge, this is the first report of the seroprevalence of T. gondii exposure in Liaoning cashmere goat in China. Our results indicated that Liaoning cashmere goat could be a potential reservoir for the transmission of T. gondii in Liaoning Province.
publisher	EDP Sciences
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Liaoning cashmere goat from northeastern China

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