Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in slaughtered animals and nested PCR detection in meat and meat products

  • Ciftcioglu, Gurhan (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine I
  • Gargili, Aysen (Marmara University I
  • Issa, Ghassan (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine I
  • et al.
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Abstract

T. gondii is an obligate, intracellular parasite, which is widely distributed in the world. The parasite is able to infect all warm-blooded hosts - including human - and all host cells except erythrocytes. The infection may manifest itself as severe clinical forms and life-threatening disease in immunocompromised patients such as HIV/AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients, and patients with malignancy. T. gondii has three types of transmission: by consuming food or water containing oocysts, by eating undercooked meats containing tissue cysts, and transplacentally. Consuming undercooked meat is one of the most likely ways (28%) of transmission among pregnant toxoplasmosis patients and consumption of raw or undercooked meat has been reported as the major risk factor for toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Norway. According to the outcomes of previous studies, raw and undercooked meats, which carry T. gondii, would be important risk factors in the transmission of toxoplasmosis. Therefore, aims of the present study were: 1) to detect the parasite in meat and brain of slaughtered food animals (cattle and sheep) used as raw material for commercial products and to detect in commercial meat products (brain and dry fermented sausage), which could pose potential hazard to human health, 2) to evaluate the relationship between seroprevalence in slaughtered animals and the PCR results of the tissue samples of same slaughtered animals.

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Ciftcioglu, Gurhan (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, I. (Turkey). D. of F. H. and T., Gargili, Aysen (Marmara University, I. (Turkey). F. of H. S., Issa, Ghassan (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, I. (Turkey). D. of F. H. and T., Ergin, Sevgi (Faculty of Medicine, I. (Turkey). D. of M. and C. M., & Midilli, Kenan (Faculty of Medicine, I. (Turkey). D. of M. and C. M. (2012). Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in slaughtered animals and nested PCR detection in meat and meat products. In Proceedings of the International Conference Biological Food Safety and Quality (pp. 69–71). Retrieved from http://www.vet.bg.ac.rs/~namirnice/download/SKUPOVI/BFSQ Belgrade 2012/Zbornik BFSQ/Zbornik radova BFSQ konferencija (1).pdf

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