{"title":"英国牛的新孢子虫","authors":"L. Jerram","doi":"10.12968/live.2023.28.1.13","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Neosporosis was first identified in the 1980s and has since become well established as an endemic disease of cattle and a significant cause of abortion. Neospora caninum is an obligate, intracellular, protozoal parasite that relies on intermediate and definitive hosts to complete its lifecycle. Neospora infection leaves cattle three to thirteen times more likely to abort than a healthy animal. Calves may be born alive but be latently infected owith Neospora or have obvious defects. Disease transmission can be horizontal, when cattle ingest feed contaminated with infected dog faeces that results in latency or exogenous transplacental infection, or vertical when latent infection recrudesces, producing a congenitally infected calf. Testing involves serology or direct testing if abortion material is available. Serology can provide a presumptive diagnosis when carried out near in time to an abortion event. Eradicating the disease involves identifying infected cows and infected family lines through serology and removing these individuals from the herd. This approach takes time because seropositive cows do not always return positive tests, and in a herd with a high seroprevalence it is not economically viable to remove large numbers of animals.","PeriodicalId":100879,"journal":{"name":"Livestock","volume":"222 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Neospora in UK cattle\",\"authors\":\"L. Jerram\",\"doi\":\"10.12968/live.2023.28.1.13\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Neosporosis was first identified in the 1980s and has since become well established as an endemic disease of cattle and a significant cause of abortion. Neospora caninum is an obligate, intracellular, protozoal parasite that relies on intermediate and definitive hosts to complete its lifecycle. Neospora infection leaves cattle three to thirteen times more likely to abort than a healthy animal. Calves may be born alive but be latently infected owith Neospora or have obvious defects. Disease transmission can be horizontal, when cattle ingest feed contaminated with infected dog faeces that results in latency or exogenous transplacental infection, or vertical when latent infection recrudesces, producing a congenitally infected calf. Testing involves serology or direct testing if abortion material is available. Serology can provide a presumptive diagnosis when carried out near in time to an abortion event. Eradicating the disease involves identifying infected cows and infected family lines through serology and removing these individuals from the herd. This approach takes time because seropositive cows do not always return positive tests, and in a herd with a high seroprevalence it is not economically viable to remove large numbers of animals.\",\"PeriodicalId\":100879,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Livestock\",\"volume\":\"222 1\",\"pages\":\"\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2023-01-02\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Livestock\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2023.28.1.13\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Livestock","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2023.28.1.13","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Neosporosis was first identified in the 1980s and has since become well established as an endemic disease of cattle and a significant cause of abortion. Neospora caninum is an obligate, intracellular, protozoal parasite that relies on intermediate and definitive hosts to complete its lifecycle. Neospora infection leaves cattle three to thirteen times more likely to abort than a healthy animal. Calves may be born alive but be latently infected owith Neospora or have obvious defects. Disease transmission can be horizontal, when cattle ingest feed contaminated with infected dog faeces that results in latency or exogenous transplacental infection, or vertical when latent infection recrudesces, producing a congenitally infected calf. Testing involves serology or direct testing if abortion material is available. Serology can provide a presumptive diagnosis when carried out near in time to an abortion event. Eradicating the disease involves identifying infected cows and infected family lines through serology and removing these individuals from the herd. This approach takes time because seropositive cows do not always return positive tests, and in a herd with a high seroprevalence it is not economically viable to remove large numbers of animals.