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| Title |
Investigating seagrass in Toxoplasma gondii transmission in Florida (Trichechus manatus latirostris) and Antillean (T. m. manatus) manatees.
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| Published in |
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.3354/dao03181 |
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| Authors |
Heidi M Wyrosdick, Richard Gerhold, Chunlei Su, Antonio A Mignucci-Giannoni, Robert K Bonde, Alycia Chapman, Carla I Rivera-Pérez, Jessica Martinez, Debra L Miller |
| Abstract |
Toxoplasma gondii is a feline protozoan reported to cause morbidity and mortality in manatees and other marine mammals. Given the herbivorous nature of manatees, ingestion of oocysts from contaminated water or seagrass is presumed to be their primary mode of infection. The objectives of this study were to investigate oocyst contamination of seagrass beds in Puerto Rico and determine the seroprevalence of T. gondii in Antillean (Trichechus manatus manatus) and Florida (T. m. latirostris) manatees. Sera or plasma from Antillean (n = 5) and Florida (n = 351) manatees were tested for T. gondii antibodies using the modified agglutination test. No T. gondii DNA was detected via PCR in seagrass samples (n = 33) collected from Puerto Rico. Seroprevalence was 0%, suggesting a lower prevalence of T. gondii in these manatee populations than previously reported. This was the first study to investigate the potential oocyst contamination of the manatee diet, and similar studies are important for understanding the epidemiology of T. gondii in herbivorous marine mammals. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 28 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 14% |
| Other | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 9 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 5 | 18% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 11 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 January 2018.
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