The experimental study was conducted at the Veterinary Faculty, Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU), Mozam-bique. The number of organs and muscle tissues accessed for inspection varied as it depended on will-ingness of owners to access them for thorough inspection. Various organs and muscle tissues from a total of 169 abattoir-slaughtered goats of local breeds of mixed sexes from a municipal abattoir in Tete Province, central west region of Mozambique, were inspected for the presence of T. multiceps in goats and assist meat inspectors in locating the cysts at abattoirs during meat inspection. The results will add new information on the predilection sites of T. multiceps cysts in goats slaugh-tered at a local abattoir and those experimentally infected and the morphological characteristics of the cysts and scole-ces. For this reason, the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and predilection sites of T. To the best of our knowledge, no other data exist on the occurrence of coenurosis in Mozambique and no references have been made to the site of predilection and the morphological char-acteristics of the larva and scoleces in goats. multiceps larva in Gaza and Tete Provinces of Mozambique has been reported to range from 7.3% to 13.8% based on abattoir findings. Despite the availability of these tests which have their own practical challenges, post mortem findings of a thin walled cyst filled with transparent fluid and with numerous scoleces in the wall remain the definitive diagnosis. Immunodi-agnosis tests such as skin test for immediate hypersen-sitivity, indirect haemaglutination antibody (IHA) test, immuno-electrophoresis (IEP), gel double diffusion (DD), immunoblot and enzyme linked immune-assay (ELISA) tests have been used experimentally. Īnimal cerebral coenurosis is usually diagnosed based on a clinical examination protocol and seldom includes imaging methods like radiology, ultrasonography and computed tomography which are mainly used in experimental situations. Apart from the cerebral form, which is usually fatal, intramuscular and subcutaneous connective tissues, liver, lung forms have been reported to occur. The larval stage, known as coenurus cerebralis, causes a central nervous system disease in sheep commonly known as coenurosis, gid or sturdy and may also affect other animal species such as domestic and wild ruminants including humans. Multiceps multiceps)is a worldwide parasite which inhabits the small intestine of dogs, foxes, coyotes and jackals. Taenia multiceps coenurus cerebralis cysts meat inspection goats Mozambique predilections sites Introduction In the abattoir-slaughtered goats, animals with one cyst were more frequent in both muscular and subcutaneous tissues (73.3%) and brain (75%) and fewer animals were found to harbor two or more cysts. The muscle and subcutaneous tissues were the most common anatomic location of cysts in both the naturally and experimentally infected (Group 1 and 2) goats with a prevalence of 9.1%, 82% and 75% respectively and this was followed by the brain in the naturally infected (8.5%), and Group 2 (11.4%) and the heart and mesentery (4.5%) in Group 2. multiceps recuperated from experimentally infected dogs.The prevalence of infection was 14.8% in the naturally infected goats, 78.6% for Group 1 and 82.8% for Group 2 of the experimentally infected goats. Each animal was experimentally infected with 3000 eggs of T. The experimentally infected goats of mixed sexes were divided into Group one (28 animals slaughtered at 10 weeks post-infection) and Group two (29 animals slaughtered at 22 weeks post-infection). One hundred and forty nine indigenous goats slaughtered at the Tete municipal abattoir, Mozambique, and fifty seven goats experimentally infected with Taenia multiceps eggs were inspected to determine the prevalence,predilection sites and morphological characteristic of cysts and scoleces of T. Visit for more related articles at Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases Box 257, Maputo, Mozambique E-mail: Date: 5 December 2011 Revised Date: 21 December 2011 Accepted Date: 23 December 2011 Box 257, Maputo, MozambiqueĢ School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Biological Science Building, Westville Campus, Durban 4000, South Africaģ Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain *Corresponding Author: Sonia M. Capece 1, Carles Crist`ofol 3, Margarita Arboix 3, and Lu´ıs Neves 1ġ Faculty of Veterinary Science, Eduardo Mondlane University, Av. Afonso 1 *, Samson Mukaratirwa 2, Katarina Hajovska 1, Bettencourt P. Prevalence and Morphological Characteristics of Taenia multiceps Cysts(Coenurus Cerebralis) from Abattoir-Slaughtered and Experimentally
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