Prevalence of Neospora caninum Exposure in Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) from Oklahoma with Implications of Testing Method on Detection

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dc.creatorHaydett, Katelyn M. (TTU)
dc.creatorPeper, Steven T. (TTU)
dc.creatorReinoso Webb, Cynthia (TTU)
dc.creatorTiffin, Hannah S. (TTU)
dc.creatorWilson-Fallon, Alexander N. (TTU)
dc.creatorJones-Hall, Yava L.
dc.creatorWebb, Stephen L.
dc.creatorPresley, Steven M. (TTU)
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-23T15:07:22Z
dc.date.available2022-11-23T15:07:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractNeospora caninum is a protozoan parasite, reported as a leading cause of cattle abortions and reproductive failure worldwide, costing the cattle industry approximately $1.3 billion annually. With wild pig (Sus scrofa) populations estimated at over six million in the United States, contact between wild pigs and livestock is inevitable, mainly because of the widespread geographic co-occurrence of the two species. As a known reservoir for numerous fungal, bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases, wild pigs are of particular importance for human and veterinary health relative to the prevention of infectious diseases. The seroprevalence of N. caninum in wild pig populations was previously documented in the United States, raising the question as to their exposure point of prevalence. This research screened 116 individual wild pigs for N. caninum using a variety of available assays. Using two different commercially available ELISA test kits, seroprevalence ranged from 12.5% to 67.8%. The Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test resulted in our highest percent seroprevalence for these samples, at 84.1%. However, none of our samples showed any presence of N. caninum or associated pathologies via histological evaluation of representative tissues. Importantly, the assays used in this study were not congruent with all duplicate samples or between the test types used. The implications of these non-congruent results demonstrates that currently available testing assays produce variable results, underscoring the need for more reliable testing kits and a standardized methodology when assessing disease prevalence in wildlife, particularly for N. caninum in wild pigs, which impacts prevalence and comparability across studies.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHaydett KM, Peper ST, Reinoso Webb C, Tiffin HS, Wilson-Fallon AN, Jones-Hall YL, Webb SL, Presley SM. Prevalence of Neospora caninum Exposure in Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) from Oklahoma with Implications of Testing Method on Detection. Animals. 2021; 11(9):2487. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092487en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092487
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/90348
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectCanine Neosporosisen_US
dc.subjectCattleen_US
dc.subjectDiseasesen_US
dc.subjectInvasive Speciesen_US
dc.subjectLivestocken_US
dc.subjectParasiteen_US
dc.subjectWild Pigen_US
dc.titlePrevalence of Neospora caninum Exposure in Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) from Oklahoma with Implications of Testing Method on Detectionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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