Direct immunodiagnosis of Echinococcus granulosus in feces of stray, companion and policy dogs in Baghdad province-Iraq

Abstract EN

Echinococcus granulosus is a cosmopolitan parasite affected mainly the dogs and can afflicted most animals resulting in an echinococcosis that persist endemically or high endemically in Middle Eastern countries involved Iraq.

The main goal of this study was to use the direct ELISA as a diagnostic tool in detection of the causative agent in only lived dogs of some regions in Baghdad province-Iraq.

The fecal samples were collected from a totally (70) dogs (comprised; 38 stray, 22 companion and 10 policy dogs) during seven months.

The direct ELISA techniques revealed that the infection rates were (18.42%) and (4.55%) in stray and companion dogs respectively, with absence of infection in policy dogs.

Also, the degree of infection in seropositive dogs was (62.5%), (12.5%) and (25%) for mild, moderate and strong infections respectively.

Statistically the significant differences had been reported between the examined dogs and within the positive dogs at (P˂0.05).