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A survey of chickens for viable toxoplasms in Croatia
1Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, P.O. Box 190, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. kuticic@vef.hr
Acta Veterinaria Hungarica
|June 14, 2001
Abstract:
Brain tissues of 716 slaughtered domestic chickens (524 broilers and 192 hens) were bioassayed for viable toxoplasms. Each tissue was homogenized and subcutaneously injected into 4 SPF mice. Six weeks later the mice were euthanatized and their brains microscopically examined for Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts. Three (0.4%) out of a total of 716 birds were positive. All positive cases were hens. This is the first isolation of T. gondii from chickens in Croatia.