PATHOGENICITY OF TOXOPLASMA-GONDII OOCYSTS TO PONIES
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 41 (9) , 1549-1551
Abstract
Nine ponies were fed 100,000 infective T. gondii oocysts and were given corticosteroid injections before and after feeding the T. gondii oocysts. Titers to the Sabin-Feldman dye tests (1:2 to 1:16,384) developed within postinoculation days (PID) 7-21 and antibodies persisted to PID 133. Toxoplasma organisms were isolated from the tissues of 4 ponies (heart of 4, brain of 2, spinal cord of 3, diaphragm of 1, skeletal muscle of 1, liver of 1, kidneys of 1) killed between PID 36 and 63, but not from 5 ponies killed between PID 117-150. Seemingly, ponies are one of the more resistant species of animals to develop clinical toxoplasmosis.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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