{"id":620,"date":"2017-02-17T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/?p=620"},"modified":"2017-02-17T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:28:25","slug":"serological-survey-of-antibodies-to-toxoplasma-gondii-and-neospora-caninium-in-goat-population-in-canary-islands-macaronesia-archipelago-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Serological survey of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninium in goat population in Canary Islands (Macaronesia Archipelago, Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\"><a class=\"cLink\" title=\"Go to Small Ruminant Research on ScienceDirect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/09214488\">Small Ruminant Research<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"volIssue\"><a class=\"S_C_volIss\" title=\"Go to table of contents for this volume\/issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/09214488\/147\/supp\/C\">Volume 147<\/a>, February 2017, Pages 73\u201376<\/p>\n<p class=\"volIssue\">E. Rodr\u00edguez-Ponce, 1, M. Conde, J.A. Corbera, J.R. Jaber , M.R. Ventura, C. Guti\u00e9rrez<br \/>\na Unit of Animal Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain<br \/>\nb Research Institute of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain<br \/>\nc Department of Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain<br \/>\nd Unit of Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"authorabs00101\" class=\"secHeading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n<p id=\"spar0025\"><em>Toxoplasma gondii<\/em> and <em>Neospora caninum<\/em> are protozoan parasites with worldwide distribution affecting different species. Previous studies performed in Gran Canaria Island on <em>T. gondii<\/em> revealed 63.3% of seroprevalence for both, humans and goats. Therefore, in order to evaluate the current status of both parasites in goats in the Canary Islands, 552 animals located in different climate zones were randomly selected. Sera were analyzed using specific enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), revealing an overall seroprevalence of 7.8% and 1.08% for <em>T. gondii<\/em> and <em>N. caninum<\/em>, respectively. Prevalence in individual islands ranged from 0% to 30% for <em>T. gondii<\/em> and from 0% to 3.3% for <em>N. caninum<\/em>. This is the first epidemiological study done in the Canary Islands, and it revealed that the distribution and prevalence of these parasites were related to the different climates present in each island. Compared to the previous studies, this survey demonstrated a diminished seroprevalence for toxoplasmosis in one of the seven islands studied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"volIssue\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Ruminant Research Volume 147, February 2017, Pages 73\u201376 E. Rodr\u00edguez-Ponce, 1, M. Conde, J.A. Corbera, J.R. Jaber , M.R. Ventura, C. Guti\u00e9rrez a Unit of Animal Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain b Research Institute of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, University of Las<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}