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Among food animals, sheep along with goats and pigs possess the highest incidence of <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic> cysts in meat, and play a major role as a source of human infection.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this study, a new commercial ELISA kit (PrioCHECK\u00ae Toxoplasma Ab SR, Prionics Schlieren-Zurich, Switzerland) for the detection of anti-<jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic> antibodies in serum, plasma and meat juice of sheep, was evaluated by comparing it with the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), indirect haemagglutination test (IHA) and real-time PCR, on samples from experimentally inoculated and naturally exposed sheep.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The commercial ELISA detected the infection status in 50% and 100% of sheep orally inoculated with 10,000 <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic> oocysts (n\u2009=\u20096), from two or three weeks post infection (wpi), respectively, both on serum and plasma samples. Meat juice from all experimentally inoculated sheep collected at slaughter (12 wpi) showed positive ELISA values. In naturally exposed sheep (n\u2009=\u2009396), the ELISA showed a very good agreement with IFAT (<jats:italic>kappa<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.91-1.0) and IHA (<jats:italic>kappa<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.96-1.0) performed on serum; and a positive correlation was observed between ELISA values and IFAT titers. By a Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve analysis, the commercial ELISA had relative sensitivities between 93.33% and 100%, and relative specificities between 96.87% and 100% respect to IFAT and IHA, depending on the considered cut-off value and animal groups tested. Furthermore, the ELISA correctly recognized all animals reacting positive in real-time PCR. The ELISA results on meat juice agreed with those on serum samples in all experimentally inoculated animals, and in 94 out of 96 (97.9%) naturally exposed sheep, when meat juice was tested at a 1:10 dilution.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The commercial ELISA kit evaluated in this study could represent a valuable tool to improve the surveillance and reporting system for <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic> in sheep populations at the farm level or for diagnosis at the slaughterhouse, contributing to the control of this widespread zoonosis.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-3305-6-85","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,5]],"date-time":"2013-04-05T10:16:17Z","timestamp":1365156977000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":50,"title":["Evaluation of a commercial ELISA kit for detection of antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii in serum, plasma and meat juice from experimentally and naturally infected sheep"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Sabine B","family":"Glor","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Renate","family":"Edelhofer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Felix","family":"Grimm","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Deplazes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Walter","family":"Basso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,5]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1\u20132","key":"878_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vetpar.2009.02.026","volume":"163","author":"JP Dubey","year":"2009","unstructured":"Dubey JP: Toxoplasmosis in sheep-the last 20 years. 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