An investigation of toxoplasmosis in free range chickens, industrial chickens and duck in mid Euphrates area of Iraq

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The current study determined the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis among the free Range Chicken , Industrial Chicken and Duck by using LAT and ELISA .A total of 200 FR Chicken purchased (70 Al-qadisyia province, 65Al-najaf province, and 65 Babylon province), 200 Industrial Chicken purchased from ten Industrial farms in geographical different region of Al-Diwania city and 50 Duck purchased(rural area and bird sale places of Al-Diwania city) were involved in this study , one hundred thirty four (67%) of FR Chicken , Sixty two (31%) of Industrial chicken and twenty eight (56%) of Duck, were diagnosed primarily as Toxoplasmosis by LAT.Out of 90 ( 45 FR Chicken and 45 Industrial Chicken ) of LAT positive cases, only 36% were positive by ELISA which considered as confirmed Toxoplasmosis cases .Results revealed ,that 51.11% and 28.88% of FR chicken and Industrial chicken positive by ELISA respectively.The percentage of T.

gondii antibodies in FR chickenby LAT were 71.42%,69.23% and 55.38% in Al-Qadissiya, Babylon and in Al-najaf provinces respectively whereas the percentage by ELISA were 66.66% , 46.66% and 33.33% in Al-Qadisiya, Babylon and in Al-najaf respectively.Although the difference observed in the percentage of T.

gondii antibodies among different provinces, there was no significant differences P < 0.05detected by LAT whereas in the ELISA there was significant differences P<0.05.The highest titer in LAT were 1/128 (34.32%) in FR chicken, 1/8 (29.3%) in the Industrial chicken and 1/32(35.7 %) in the Duck, The lowest titer were 1/2 (5.22%) in FR chicken , 1/128 (0%) in the Industrial chicken and 1/4(0%) in the Duck.