Serological Studied On Toxoplasma Gondii Infection in Sheep and Goats in Ismailia Province

Abstract

Blood serum samples from 100 sheep and 100 goats were collected and examined for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Modified Agglutination Test. The seroprevalences of Toxoplasma gondii in sheep were 34% and 33% and in goats were 32%, 31% by ELISA and MAT respectively. The prevalence in the females of sheep and goats were higher than males. The seroprevalences were higher in adult animals than young in both sheep and goats. Using the MAT as a reference test, the sensitivity and specificity of the ELISA Test were 100% and 98.5% respectively

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in Small Ruminants in Luxor, Egypt

“…Our results were relatively higher than those reported in different areas in Egypt 28.1% at Cairo by ELISA(Abd El-Razik et al, 2018;Abbas et al, 2019), and 32.0%(El- Gawady et al, 2018). Our result was lower than another finding in Egypt as in Dakahlia 50.6%(Younis et al, 2015), 59.0% and 54.0% (Al-Kappany et al, 2018) by using ELISA and IFA, respectively and 43.0% documented at Cairo, Giza, Kalubyia using ELISA(El-Fadaly et al, 2017).…”

“…Moreover, low results were observed in Cairo, Dakahlia, Sharkia, and Giza governorates, with 12.0%, 27.0%, 17.1%, and 26.2 % infection rates, respectively (Al-Kappany et al, 2018). Furthermore, using ELISA, 34.0 % was demonstrated as seroprevalence of T. gondii in sheep in Ismailia governorate (El-Gawady et al, 2018). In the present study, the seroprevalence of T. gondii in goats was 34.8% by ELISA.…”