Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in poultry kept under different housing conditions in Israel
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| dc.contributor.advisor | Schwan, Ernst Volker | en |
| dc.contributor.postgraduate | Salant, Harold | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-08T10:06:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-08T10:06:17Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2017-04-07 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2016. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence survey was conducted in poultry flocks kept under different housing systems in Israel. The seroprevalence rates were 35.4 % (46/130) in battery-raised chicken egg-layers from Jerusalem which were first raised on the ground, 12.5 % (19/152) in free-range chickens from various locations of the country and 9 % (4/45) in turkeys from the north. However, all broilers (50) and chicken breeding stock (58) kept under high biosecurity conditions in Jerusalem were found to be T. gondii seronegative. It is concluded that high biosecurity conditions prevent contamination with oocysts by rendering premises inaccessible to cats. | en |
| dc.description.availability | Unrestricted | en |
| dc.description.degree | MSc | en |
| dc.description.department | Veterinary Tropical Diseases | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Salant, H 2016, Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in poultry kept under different housing conditions in Israel, MSc Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60277> | en |
| dc.identifier.other | A2017 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60277 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | en |
| dc.rights | © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | en |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en |
| dc.title | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in poultry kept under different housing conditions in Israel | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
