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Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in goats, cats and humans in Russia
- Source :
- Parasitology International. 67:112-114
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Toxoplasmosis, a most common zoonosis, is caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. However, there is little epidemiological information on T. gondii infections in humans and livestock animals in Russia. Therefore, in this study, the seroprevalence of T. gondii in goats in Russia was investigated. A total of 216 goats from 32 farms were investigated and 95 of them were seropositive for T. gondii. The difference in seroprevalence between the examined regions was not statistically significant. We next collected serum samples from 99 cats and 181 humans in Kazan city, the state capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and examined their T. gondii seroprevalences. Thirty-nine of the 99 cat samples and 56 of the 181 human samples showed seropositivity. Logistical regression analysis revealed that the cat breeding history of the human subjects, but not their sex or age is a significant risk factor for T. gondii seropositivity. These findings suggest that the natural environment in Russia may be widely polluted with T. gondii oocysts shed by cats, and ingestion of these oocysts provides a major route for human infection with this parasite.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Veterinary medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
animal diseases
030231 tropical medicine
Seroprevalence
Toxoplasma gondii
Russia
Feces
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Zoonoses
parasitic diseases
Epidemiology
medicine
Animals
Humans
Parasite hosting
CATS
biology
business.industry
Goats
fungi
Zoonosis
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Toxoplasmosis
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
Биология
Oocytes
Cats
Regression Analysis
Parasitology
Livestock
business
Toxoplasma
Медицина и здравоохранение
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13835769
- Volume :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Parasitology International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f7865c326d97e9c0ead3a9821e76f63