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Article Dans Une Revue Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Année : 2013

Toxoplasmosis seroprevalence in urban rodents: a survey in Niamey, Niger.

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A serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii was conducted on 766 domestic and peridomestic rodents from 46 trapping sites throughout the city of Niamey, Niger. A low seroprevalence was found over the whole town with only 1.96% of the rodents found seropositive. However, differences between species were important, ranging from less than 2% in truly commensal Mastomys natalensis, Rattus rattus and Mus musculus, while garden-associated Arvicanthis niloticus displayed 9.1% of seropositive individuals. This is in line with previous studies on tropical rodents--that we reviewed here--which altogether show that Toxoplasma seroprevalence in rodent is highly variable, depending on many factors such as locality and/or species. Moreover, although we were not able to decipher statistically between habitat or species effect, such a contrast between Nile grass rats and the other rodent species points towards a potentially important role of environmental toxoplasmic infection. This would deserve to be further scrutinised since intra-city irrigated cultures are extending in Niamey, thus potentially increasing Toxoplasma circulation in this yet semi-arid region. As far as we are aware of, our study is one of the rare surveys of its kind performed in Sub-Saharan Africa and the first one ever conducted in the Sahel.

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hal-00925653 , version 1 (08-01-2014)

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Aurélien Mercier, Madougou Garba, Henri Bonnabau, Mamadou Kane, Jean-Pierre Rossi, et al.. Toxoplasmosis seroprevalence in urban rodents: a survey in Niamey, Niger.. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013, 108 (4), pp.399-407. ⟨10.1590/S0074-0276108042013002⟩. ⟨hal-00925653⟩
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