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Neospora caninum in wildlife
- Source :
- Trends in Parasitology. 22:247-252
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2006.
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Abstract
- Neosporosis, which is caused by the coccidian parasite Neospora caninum, is recognized as a major disease of domestic animals that causes high abortion rates in cattle and fatal neurological disease in dogs. A life cycle of N. caninum in wild animals (i.e. sylvatic) has long been suspected because neosporosis has been detected in several wildlife species. Recently, the transmission of N. caninum has been confirmed in coyotes and white-tailed deer. The newly confirmed wild hosts and other wild animals are probably involved in the sylvatic cycle of the parasite. Control measures for neosporosis could now become more complicated, given the participation of wildlife in the life cycle of N. caninum.
- Subjects :
- Life Cycle Stages
biology
Coccidiosis
Transmission (medicine)
fungi
Neospora
Wildlife
Zoology
Animals, Wild
biology.organism_classification
Neospora caninum
Host-Parasite Interactions
Apicomplexa
Dogs
Infectious Diseases
Animals, Domestic
parasitic diseases
Cats
Animals
Protozoa
Parasite hosting
Cattle
Parasitology
Sylvatic cycle
Disease Reservoirs
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14714922
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Trends in Parasitology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d707ed7eb39ac2423ae401198f03c06d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2006.03.008