Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in Eurasian Badgers

Ali Anwar; Joanna Knaggs; Katrina M. Service; Graeme W. McLaren; Philip Riordan; Chris Newman; Richard J. Delahay; Chris Cheesman; David W. Macdonald

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-42.1.179

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1 January 2006 Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in Eurasian Badgers

Ali Anwar, Joanna Knaggs, Katrina M. Service, Graeme W. McLaren, Philip Riordan, Chris Newman, Richard J. Delahay, Chris Cheesman, David W. Macdonald

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 42(1):179-181 (2006). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-42.1.179

Abstract

Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were detected in samples collected from 90 live-trapped adult Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) sampled at three sites (two agricultural and one woodland) in southern England. Serum was tested using a qualitative latex agglutination test procedure and 63 of 90 (70%) badgers tested positive for T. gondii antibodies. Antibody prevalence varied between the sites; 67% and 77% of badgers from agricultural sites and 39% from a nonagricul-tural site tested positive.

Anwar, Knaggs, Service, McLaren, Riordan, Newman, Delahay, Cheesman, and Macdonald: Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in Eurasian Badgers

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Ali Anwar, Joanna Knaggs, Katrina M. Service, Graeme W. McLaren, Philip Riordan, Chris Newman, Richard J. Delahay, Chris Cheesman, and David W. Macdonald "Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in Eurasian Badgers," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(1), 179-181, (1 January 2006). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-42.1.179

Received: 20 October 2004; Published: 1 January 2006

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