Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from wild boars in Peninsular Malaysia.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0061730 and PMC identifier 3629149.
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Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasitic protozoan that infects nearly one-third of the world population. The present study was done to isolate and genotype T. gondii from wild boar from forests of Pahang, Malaysia. A total of 30 wild boars' blood, heads and hearts were obtained for this study and 30 (100.0%) were found to be seropositive when assayed with modified agglutination test (MAT ≥ 6). The positive samples were inoculated into mice and T. gondii was only isolated from samples that had strong seropositivity (MAT ≥ 1:24).The isolates were subjected to PCR-RFLP analysis and all the Peninsular Malaysia isolates of T. gondii are of clonal type I.
Medical subject headings
- Genotyping Techniques
- Sus scrofa
- Toxoplasma
- Toxoplasmosis, Animal