title: Antibodies against toxoplasma in commensal rodents trapped in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia.
abstract: Toxoplasma gondii, that protozoal parasite which causes toxoplasmosis, pays no respect to boundaries of Zoology and Geography. It has been reported in a large number of birds and mammals including man from nearly all over the world. In Saudi Arabia, the incidence of human infection ranges between 21% and 49.3%. In this paper, the level of antibodies against Toxoplasma in sera of different species of rodents was measured by the indirect haemagglutination tests (IHA). The seropositivities ranged between 12.5% (Mus musculus) and 41.7% (Rattus norvegicus). The overall rate of infection was 35.6%. The role played by rodents in the spreading of the Toxoplasma infection was discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Morsy
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Sabry
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Habib
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Arafa
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: el Bahrawy
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: al Dakhil
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood*; D051379:Mice; D009115:Muridae / Q000469:parasitology*; D015995:Prevalence; D051381:Rats; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000276:immunology*; D014124:Toxoplasmosis, Animal / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan