SEROPREVALENCE OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII AMONG COMMENSAL RODENTS FROM GIZA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Article 17, Volume 47, Issue 1, April 2017, Pages 145-150 PDF (451.09 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2017.78016 | ||
| Authors | ||
| MICHEAL WILLIAM MIKHAIL; AHMED HUSSIEN HASAN; KAMILLIA ALI ALLAM; NEAMA MOSTAFA MOHAMMED | ||
| Research Institute of Medical Entomology, The General Organization for Institutes and Teaching Hospitals, Ministry of Health and Population, Dokki, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular zoonotic parasite that infects a large spectrum of warm-blood animals, including humans. Congenital toxoplasmosis is a worldwide problem. Rodents are intermediate hosts and serve as food for felids, the definitive hosts. A serological survey for antibodies to T. gondii was carried out among two species of commensal rodent species Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus, trapped from different localities within Abu-El- Nomros center, Giza Governorate. Of 125 rats, 5 (4.0%) had anti-Toxoplasma antibodies. Of 79 R. nor- vegicus 3 (3.8%), and 46 R. rattus 2 (4.3%). The results showed that mature and immature of males and females of both species had anti-toxoplasmal. This result was not statistically significant between two species of R. norvegicus and R. rattus and also between the two sexes of each species. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Giza; Rural areas; Toxoplasmosis; Human risk; Rodents; R. norvegicus; R. rattus | ||
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