Comparative Serodiagnostic Tests for Toxoplasmosis Among Sheep and Goats in Giza Governorate, Egypt

TOXOPLASMA gondii, is a ubiquitous apicomplexan parasite of warm-blooded animals , intracellular protozoan and is one of the most common parasitic infections of human. In the present study diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii was directed towards the serological methods including enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and indirect hemagglutination assay (IHAT). The comparative serological examination of 320 sheep and 306 goats blood serum antibody body titres against Toxoplasma gondii were analyzed at 10 settlements in the Giza region, Egypt. The IHAT showed the higher prevalence of toxoplasmosis 47.5 % in sheep 59.5%in goats respectively with antibody titres ranging from 1:20 1:640. Also ELISA seropositive samples 44% in sheep 55.5% in goat respectively. It could be concluded that the IHAT and ELISA tests are an efficient diagnostic tools for detection and selective diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis in sheep and goats using local strain isolate in Egypt