Epidemiology and Control of Neosporosis and Neospora caninum
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...Among cattle, both horizontal and vertical transmission can occur (Dubey et al. 2007)....
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...Abortions and neonatal mortality are a major problem in livestock operations, and neosporosis is a major cause of abortion in cattle (Dubey et al. 2007)....
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...Presence and the number of farm dogs (definitive hosts) has shown to be a risk factor for seropositivity in cattle (Dubey et al. 2007)....
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...Thus, the zoonotic potential remains uncertain (Dubey et al. 2007)....
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...It is now generally accepted that the presence of farm dogs increases the chance of N. caninum infection in cattle (Dubey et al., 2007a; VanLeeuwen et al., 2010a)....
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...Fatal neosporosis has been diagnosed previously in a 16 day old rhinoceros, and in wild cervids (reviewed in Dubey, 2003a; Dubey et al., 2007a)....
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...The transmission rate increases with gestational age perhaps nary Par J.P. Dubey, G. Schares / Veteri related to placental vascularization because the placenta seems to be more permeable in the last trimester (Dubey et al., 2006, 2007a)....
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...Many controls measures have been discussed to reduce N. caninum infection in cattle (Dubey et al., 2007a), including embryo transfer, artificial insemination of seropositive dams with semen from beef bulls, culling, replacement heifers, chemotherapy, and vaccination....
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...…et al. (2008) Mexico Aguascalientes Urban 116 20 ELISA IDEXX Cruz-Vázquez et al. (2008) Dairy farms 152 40.7 Durango City Pound 101 2 IFAT 1:25 Dubey et al. (2007b) Peru Farm 122 14.8 IFAT 1:50 Vega et al. (2010) Poland Clinics 257 21.7 ELISA Goździk et al. (2011) Clinics 110 16.3 IFAT 1:50…...
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...The epidemic, ‘‘storm-like’’ pattern is the most devastating, and costly, with a large proportion (>10%) of at risk (‘‘in-calf’’) cows aborting over a short period of time (Dubey et al., 2007)....
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...%) of at risk (‘‘in-calf’’) cows aborting over a short period of time (Dubey et al., 2007)....
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...Neospora caninum (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) has been identified as a major protozoan infection of cattle worldwide, causing significant reproductive disease such as abortion outbreaks (Dubey et al., 2007)....
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...Unlike Toxoplasma, Neospora appears not to be zoonotic, having a more restricted host range [10,11] in which it occupies a unique ecological niche showing a striking capacity for highly efficient vertical transmission in bovines [12]....
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...In most cases of neonatal neosporosis, clinical signs are not apparent until 5 to 7 weeks after birth (133)....
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...Until 1988, it was misdiagnosed as Toxoplasma gondii (138)....
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...(138), neosporosis has emerged as a serious disease of cattle and dogs worldwide....
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...caninum-associated abortions have been diagnosed in many countries (129, 130), there are only a few data based on examination of a large numbers of aborted fetuses....
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