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A SEROLOGICAL SURVEY ON THE PRESENCE OF NEWCASTLE DISEASE ANTIBODIES IN THE HUMAN IN AL-KUT COUNTRYSIDE | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Adil S. Akar; Khalid Y. Zeghair; Khuthair T. Ritha; Bushra Jassim | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present article was designed to estimate the epidemiological distribution of Newcastle Disease (ND) as a Zoonotic disease at Al-Kut countryside. For this purpose, one hundred and sixty blood samples were collected from rural poultry with no history of vaccination against ND. Sixty avian blood sample (10 chickens, 10 turkeys, 10 geese, and 10 ducks) from the four cardinal points around the city, another sixty blood samples obtained from the owners (male and female) of these domesticated birds, fifteen blood sample from each site. Sera were separated from these blood samples and submitted to Haemagglutination Inhibition (HI) test to detect the presence, and quantity of HI antibodies. The results of the serological test showed that there were positive result in most samples of man (especially in females) and turkeys, this elevation was statistically significant at the level p<0.05. This positive result was less obvious in samples of geese and ducks; whereas, almost all samples of chicken were negative, so, the fact is that, this disease is an endemic disease at the site of study, and the virus epidemiological cycle may involves latency period and shading of this virus from man to rural and backyard poultry and vice versa. | ||
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