Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in Mazandaran province poultry in 2014 year

Causative agent of toxoplasmosis is an obligatory intracellular protozoa known as Toxoplasma gondii which is able to infect most of warm blooded vertebrates. This disease due to congenital infection and abortion is of significant importance in human and veterinary medicine. Aim of this study is seroepidemiologic evaluation of toxoplasmosis by latex agglutination method in poultry of Mazandaran province. In this experiment after taking blood samples and record of poultry charecteristics including age and gender, samples were transferred to laboratory and after centrifugation sera were seprated and stored in - 20ºC. Then for evaluation of toxoplasmosis infection, diagnostic latex aglutanision kit manufactured by ZistFaravaran Pars ( ZFP) was usd and obtained data and results were analysed.In this study done byserologic Latex agglutination method, toxoplasmosis infection rate in Mazandaran province domestic poultry was observed as fallows: hen ( 13.11%), rooster (40%), duck (16.82%), goose ( 10.41%), and turkey (21.56%).