Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Camossi,LG
Data de Publicação: 2008
Outros Autores: Faccioli,PY, Menozzi,BD, Daher,SR, Langoni,H
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992008000300006
Resumo: Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii that can infect a large variety of animals, including humans. The present study aimed to evaluate the frequency of anti-T.gondii antibodies in dogs from a peripheral district of Botucatu and to establish the association among some epidemiological variables in order to evaluate risk factors for toxoplasmosis infection. Serum samples from dogs were screened using an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test. Anti-T.gondii antibody prevalence was 56%. The highest titer was 1024 (1.79%) and the most frequent titers were 16 (57.14%) and 64 (33.93%). The chi-square (X²) test revealed significant association among variables such as dog access to street, ingestion of raw meat and presence of synantropic animals in the domestic environment. These results demonstrate that toxoplasmosis is present in dogs from Jardim Santa Elisa district.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
title Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
spellingShingle Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
Camossi,LG
Toxoplasma gondii
dogs
IFA
risk factors
title_short Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
title_full Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
title_fullStr Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
title_sort Environmental risk factors for canine toxoplasmosis in a deprived district of Botucatu, SP, Brazil
author Camossi,LG
author_facet Camossi,LG
Faccioli,PY
Menozzi,BD
Daher,SR
Langoni,H
author_role author
author2 Faccioli,PY
Menozzi,BD
Daher,SR
Langoni,H
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Camossi,LG
Faccioli,PY
Menozzi,BD
Daher,SR
Langoni,H
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Toxoplasma gondii
dogs
IFA
risk factors
topic Toxoplasma gondii
dogs
IFA
risk factors
description Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii that can infect a large variety of animals, including humans. The present study aimed to evaluate the frequency of anti-T.gondii antibodies in dogs from a peripheral district of Botucatu and to establish the association among some epidemiological variables in order to evaluate risk factors for toxoplasmosis infection. Serum samples from dogs were screened using an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test. Anti-T.gondii antibody prevalence was 56%. The highest titer was 1024 (1.79%) and the most frequent titers were 16 (57.14%) and 64 (33.93%). The chi-square (X²) test revealed significant association among variables such as dog access to street, ingestion of raw meat and presence of synantropic animals in the domestic environment. These results demonstrate that toxoplasmosis is present in dogs from Jardim Santa Elisa district.
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