RISK OF TOXOPLASMOSIS FROM CATS

Abstract

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, there are two hosts, cats play an important role as definitive hosts, cattle, sheep,goats and human may play as intermediate hosts. Humans be infected by eating tissue cysts from Not cooked flesh and eat contaminated feed or water with oocytes shed in the faecal of infected cats. diagnosis of T. gondii itself is affirmation the infection but difficult, so many laboratories use serological methods to detect immunoglobulins which specific to T. gondii: latex agglutination (LA) test, Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) those methods was differ in specificity and sensitivity there is no systematic review that can perform the state of toxoplasmosis in the definitive host. Therefore the aims of the current existing review was to decided the risk factor of T. gondii infection and demonstrated the epidemiological form of infection in cats in Iraq.