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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Santos, Luciana Siqueira Silveira dos
• Soares, Herbert Sousa
• Mascarenhas, Carolina Silveira
• Santos, Paulo Roberto Silveira dos
• Gennari, Solange Maria
• Farias, Nara Amélia Da Rosa

Titel

Serum anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Passeriformes: Passeridae), in the municipality of Pelotas, RS, Brazil

Ist Teil von

• Brazilian journal of veterinary research and animal science, 2020-06, Vol.57 (2), p.e164867

Ort / Verlag

Universidade de São Paulo

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The objective of this study was to detect the presence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in serum samples from 100 sparrows (Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758) that were caught in an urban area in southern Brazil. The modified agglutination test (MAT) was used to investigate anti-T. gondii antibodies and samples with a cut-off dilution > 5 were considered positive. Among the 100 serum samples analyzed, 80 (80%) were reactive. These results demonstrate that P. domesticus may play an important role in the epidemiological chain of T. gondii, since it is widely distributed throughout Brazil, and it may act as a source of infection to domestic, semi-domestic cats and to free-living wild felids.