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Table 1 Summary of Toxoplasma gondii isolation from free-roaming chickens in St. Kitts

From: Predominance of atypical genotypes of Toxoplasma gondii in free-roaming chickens in St. Kitts, West Indies

Location

Parish

MAT

POSa

ITS1

POSb

Bioassay

POSc

MAT and/or PCR POSd

1

St. Georges Basseterre

2/9

2/9

2/9

3/9

2

St. Peters Basseterre

2/9

3/9

2/9

3/9

3

St. Thomas Middle Island

3/9

5/9

5/9

6/9

4

St. Thomas Middle Island

6/9

0/9

1/9

6/9

5

St. Anne Sandy Point

2/9

2/9

2/9

2/9

6

St. Paul Capisterre

4/9

3/9

3/9

4/9

7

St. John Capisterre

1/9

0/9

0/9

1/9

8

Christchurch

2/9

2/9

1/9

2/9

9

St. Mary Cayon

4/9

6/9

5/9

6/9

Total

 

26/81 (32%)

23/81 (28%)

21/81 (26%)

33/81 (41%)

  1. aNumber of chickens seropositive/number of chickens tested
  2. bNumber of chickens positive for T. gondii DNA (chicken tissues positive by ITS1 PCR)/number of chickens tested
  3. cNumber of chickens positive by bioassay (where brain tissue from at least one mouse out of 3 was positive by ITS1 PCR)/number of chickens tested
  4. dNumber of chickens T. gondii-positive by either serology (MAT) and/or PCR (either chicken tissues or mouse tissues)/Number of chickens tested