Description
Qualitative Detection Of anti-NEOSPORA caninum Antibodies
Test applicable to: Dog, Cattle and Deer
Sample: Whole blood, Plasma and SerumFASTest Neospora caninum is an immunochromatographic “lateral flow” technique which detects specific anti-Neospora caninum antibodies in whole blood, plasma or serum in dog or cattle.
BBC Countryfile reported that this microscopic menace (Neospora) is quietly infecting livestock and is the most common cause of bovine abortion in the UK. Identified in the 1980’s and recognised as a parasite, this disease now costs the UK an estimated 20 million pounds a year.
Source: BBC Countryfile: 16.02.2014
Neospora caninum is a similar parasite to Toxoplasma gondii. Both diseases share many of the same symptoms, but Neospora caninum can have a more severe impact on the dog’s neurological and muscular system than Toxoplasma gondii.
Dogs are the primary host and excrete the infectious oocysts in their faeces. Animals such as cattle, goats, sheep and horse are intermediate hosts they can contract the illness through grazing or drinking water contaminated with oocysts or via the intrauterine route in infected mothers.
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