Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in farm-reared ostriches (Struthio camelus) in China

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 1 Samples from Ostriches raised on farms in Henan Province and Hebei Province (n = 402)

Location	Collection time	Samples No.	Positive No. in different titers				Total positive No. and rate (%)	Isolation obtained by mice from samples^a
Location	Collection time	Samples No.	25	50	100	200	Total positive No. and rate (%)	Isolation obtained by mice from samples^a
Hebei Province	2015 Summer/fall	118 hearts	0	0	0	0	–	0
Henan Province	2015 Spring^b	31 hearts	1	0	0	0	1/31 (3.2%)	0/1
	2015 Fall^b	134 hearts 66 brains 32 sera	13 – 6	10 – 6	8 – 6	0	19/166 (11.5%)	0/7
	2012–2014	10 hearts^c 11 brains^c	–				–	0
Total	2012–2015	293 hearts 77 brains 32 sera	20	16	14	0	20/315 (6.4%)	0/8

^aNumber of antibody-positive groups /Number of inoculated-groups
^b P-value >0.05 by two-tailed chi-square tests for season factor in Henan Province
^cformalin fixed samples

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