Trichinella gondii subsp. antibodies

Nicholas, Bachand, Ravel, A., Leighton, P., Stephen, C., Iqbal, A., Ndao, M., Konecsni, K., Fernando, C. & Jenkins, E., 2018, Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) as sentinels for parasitic zoonoses, Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella nativa, in the northeastern Canadian Arctic, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 7 (3), pp. 391-397 : 394

3.3. Detection of T. gondii antibodies

Of the 39 foxes, heart fluid from sixteen (41%) were positive to T. gondii antibodies with the Modified Agglutination Test (MAT): 5 out of 7 collected from Kuujuaq (75%), 4 out of 13 from Kuujjuaraapik (31%) and 6 out of 19 from Inukjuak/Puvirnituq (37%). Of the sixteen seropositive foxes, no DNA was detected in 5 foxes ( Table 2). Of the 23 seronegative foxes, DNA was detected in the brain and/or heart of 7 foxes.