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Panazzolo, Giovanni Kalempa; Kmetiuk, Louise Bach; Domingues, Orlei José; Farinhas, João Henrique; Doline, Fernando Rodrigo; França, Danilo Alves de; Rodrigues, Nássarah Jabur Lot; Biondo, Leandro Meneguelli; Giuffrida, Rogério; Langoni, Helio; Santarém, Vamilton Alvares; Biondo, Alexander Welker; Fávero, Giovani Marino

One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs
  • Contributor: Panazzolo, Giovanni Kalempa; Kmetiuk, Louise Bach; Domingues, Orlei José; Farinhas, João Henrique; Doline, Fernando Rodrigo; França, Danilo Alves de; Rodrigues, Nássarah Jabur Lot; Biondo, Leandro Meneguelli; Giuffrida, Rogério; Langoni, Helio; Santarém, Vamilton Alvares; Biondo, Alexander Welker; Fávero, Giovani Marino
  • Published: MDPI AG, 2023
  • Published in: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8 (2023) 7, Seite 377
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed8070377
  • ISSN: 2414-6366
  • Keywords: Infectious Diseases ; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ; General Immunology and Microbiology
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  • Description: Brazilian quilombos are rural semi-isolated remnant communities of former black slaves and their descendants who traditionally maintained themselves through archaic subsistence livestock and agriculture practices and historically lacked specific public health policies. Although such individuals and their dogs may be exposed to zoonotic pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii, no study to date has assessed these human-animal populations together. Populations in four different Brazilian quilombos in southern Brazil were evaluated. Overall, 93/208 people (44.7%) and 63/100 dogs (63.0%) were seropositive for IgG anti-T. gondii antibodies by indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT), 4/208 (1.9%) human samples seropositive for IgM anti-T. gondii antibodies, with a human-dog seropositivity ratio for IgG of 0.71. Quilombola individuals ingesting game meat were 2.43-fold more likely (95% CI: 1.05–5.9) to be seropositive. No risk factors were associated with seropositivity among dogs, thus suggesting that their exposure to T. gondii was random. Surprisingly, our research group had previously found an inverted human-dog ratio for T. gondii seropositivity of 2.54 in the urban area of a nearby major city. Because consumption of raw/undercooked game meat by quilombola individuals may have contributed to higher exposure, higher overall seroprevalence among dogs may have also indicated interaction with wildlife. Although these dogs may hunt wildlife without their owners’ awareness, the higher dog seropositivity may also be related to feeding from discarded food in the community or backyard livestock animals and drinking surface water contaminated with oocysts. Thus, wildlife cannot be singled out as the reason, and future studies should consider sampling water, soil, wildlife, and livestock tissues, to fully establish the source of infection in dogs herein.
  • Access State: Open Access