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. 2022 Jul 19:9:953380.
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.953380. eCollection 2022.

Seroepidemiology of Neosporosis in Various Animals in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Tongsheng Qi  1   2 , Jingkai Ai  1   2 , Jinfang Yang  1   2 , Heng Zhu  1   2 , Yuyu Zhou  1   2 , Yulu Zhu  1   2 , Heming Zhang  1   2 , Qi Qin  1   2 , Ming Kang  1   2 , Yali Sun  1   2   3 , Jixu Li  1   2   3
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Seroepidemiology of Neosporosis in Various Animals in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Tongsheng Qi et al. Front Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Neosporosis is a worldwide infectious disease caused by intracellular parasite Neospora caninum that is a major pathogen of abortion in cattle and neurological disorders in other hosts. However, limited data are available on animals exposed to N. caninum in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Area (QTPA), and little is known about whether animals in the plateau area play an important role in the epidemiology of N. caninum. Therefore, indirect ELISAs based on a combination of NcSAG1 and NcGRA7 antigens were developed to examine both N. caninum-specific IgG and IgM antibodies in Tibetan sheep, yak, cow, pig, cattle, horse, chicken, camel, and donkey from the QTPA in this study. The results showed that all current species present- IgG and IgM-positive animals, and that the overall seroprevalence of N. caninum were 18.6 (703/3,782) and 48.1% (1,820/3,782) for the IgG and IgM antibodies, respectively. Further analysis found significant differences from different altitudes in IgG in Tibetan sheep and IgM in the yak. Hence, the present serological results indicate that the tested animal populations in the QTPA are suffering from N. caninum infections or have become carriers of N. caninum antibodies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on current N. caninum-infected animals in the QTPA, the first epidemiology of neosporosis in cow and camel in China, and the first record of N. caninum IgM antibodies in all the surveyed animals in China. This study provides the latest valuable data on the epidemiology of neosporosis in China and in plateau areas of the world.

Keywords: IgG; IgM; Neospora caninum; Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; animals; seroepidemiology.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Neospora caninum-specific IgG and IgM antibodies in various animals in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Area were detected by indirect ELISA methods based on the NcSAG1 and NcGRA7 antigens in this study. The blue short lines represented the cut-off values. (A) N. caninum-specific-IgG antibodies, (B) N. caninum-specific IgM antibodies, and (C) positive animals for neosporosis (%).
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