1. Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies from wild canids from Brazil
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Leonilda Correia dos Santos, Nara Amélia da Rosa Farias, Lucia Eiko Oishi Yai, Albério A.B Gomes, S. L. P Souza, Frances W. Rossi, William A Caňón-Franco, Solange Maria Gennari, and Jerônimo Lopes Ruas
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Veterinary medicine ,General Veterinary ,biology ,Carnivora ,Toxoplasma gondii ,Dusicyon ,Antibodies, Protozoan ,Animals, Wild ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Toxoplasmosis, Animal ,Seroepidemiologic Studies ,biology.protein ,Seroprevalence ,Animals ,Parasitology ,Antibody ,Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect ,Toxoplasma ,Brazil ,Cerdocyon thous - Abstract
The prevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies was evaluated by the indirect immunofluorescent-antibody test in serum of 57 wild canids from three different species: Lycalopex gymnocercus, Cerdocyon thous and Dusicyon vetulus from the northeast, southeast and southern regions of Brazil. The prevalence was 35.1%, with 20 of the 57 canids demonstrating antibodies anti-T. gondii at dilutions of 1:16 in 2, 1:32 in 4, 1:64 in 2, 1:128 in 2, 1:256 in 6, 1:512 in 2 and 1:2048 in 2 animals. None of the D. vetulus were positive. Among the L. gymnocercus 11 (91.7%) of the 12 samples were positive and among C. thous 9 (60%) of the 15 had antibodies anti-T. gondii.
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- 2003