DOI: 10.2478/fv-2020-0007 FOLIA VETERINARIA, 64, 1: 48—59, 2020 SEROLOGICAL SURVEY AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS ON TOXOPLASMA GONDII INFECTION IN GOATS IN MILA DISTRICT, ALGERIA Dahmane, A.1, 2, Boussena, S.3, Hafsi, F.1, 4, Ghalmi, F.1, 4 1Higher National Veterinary School of Algiers. Oued Smar, Bab Ezzouar 2Exploration and Valorization of Steppe Ecosystems Laboratory Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, Ziane Achour University, Djelf 3Management of Animal Health and Productions Laboratory Institute of Veterinary Sciences, University of Constantine 1, Constantine 4Management of Local Animal Resources Laboratory Higher National Veterinary School of Algiers. Oued Smar, Bab Ezzouar, Algeria
[email protected] ABSTRACT sis of some factors thought to be related to the onset of this infection such as age, sex, management system, Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite prevalent locality and presence of cats showed no significant rela- in humans and other animals worldwide having medical tionship (P > 0.05); these factors did not seem to affect and veterinary importance on account of reproductive the frequency of the infection. The seropositivity level failure causing significant socioeconomic losses. The of T. gondii was significantly higher in aborted goats aims of this study were to estimate the seroprevalence (P = 0.007), which suggested that they may play a sig- of T. gondii infection in goats, determined the possible nificant role in pregnancy failure. In the concordance risk factors associated, and evaluate the performances of evaluation between the two serological tests (ELISA and the latex agglutination test (LAT) to anti-T. gondii anti- LAT), the Cohen’s Kappa value was calculated and the bodies screening using the indirect Enzyme-linked im- results showed a K of 0.519 (p = 0.000) belonging to the munosorbent assay as a reference test (iELISA).