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- Title
SEROLOGICAL DETECTION OF INFECTION RATE WITH TOXOPLASMOSIS IN CAMELS AT AL-NAJAF GOVERNORATE, IRAQ.
- Authors
Al-Dhalimy, Aiman Mohammed Baqir; Mahmoud, Marai Hamid Saad
- Abstract
The present study was initiated at AL-Najaf governorate in Iraq to determine the infection rate with toxoplasmosis serologically in camels resident during the period November 2014 until May 2015. Two hundred and twenty seven camels of which 117 (51.5%) were males and 110 (48.5%) were females, serum samples were taken and all run through a latex agglutination test LAT, to determine the presence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies and the positive samples to LAT were retested with iELISA to confirm the LAT result. The result showed that out of 227 serum samples 70 (30.8%) were positive to LAT, there was higher infection rate in females (37.2%) than it is in males (24.7%) and the seropositivity percent increased by increasing age of animals. The iELISA test revealed that 16 (22.8%)serum samples were positive for toxoplasmosis, males having a lower percentage of infection 6 (20.6%)in comparison to females10 (24.31%) also showed that the percentage of iELISA positivity increased with increasing age of animals.
- Subjects
NAJAF (Iraq); TOXOPLASMOSIS in animals; AGGLUTINATION tests; CAMELS; LATEX
- Publication
Biochemical & Cellular Archives, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0972-5075
- Publication type
Article