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Table 20.

Seroprevalence of T. gondii antibodies in rodents from Egypt

Species	Governorate	No. tested	No. positive (%)	Test	Reference
Rattus norvegicus	Cairo	100	34 (34.0)	DT	Rifaat et al. (1971)^a
Rattus alexandrinus	Cairo	110	47 (42.7)	DT	Rifaat et al. (1973d)^a
Acomys cahirinus	Different	101	36 (36.3)	DT (1:8)	Rifaat et al. (1976a)^a
Rattus norvegicus	Port Said	104	32 (30.8)	IHA	Morsy et al. (1981)
Rattus norvegicus	Ismailia	150	21 (12.6)	IHA⁵	Morsy et al. (1982)
Rattus rattus	Ismailia	150	15 (10.0)	IHA⁵	Morsy et al. (1982)
Rattus norvegicus	Dakahlia	200	26 (13.0)	IHA⁵	El-Shazly et al. (1991)
Rattus rattus		228	20 (8.8)
Mus musculus		87	None
Acomys cahirinus		69	4 (5.8)
Rattus norvegicus	Cairo, Giza	74	34 (45.9)	LAT¹	El Fadaly et al. (2016)^b
Rattus rattus		108	21 (19.4)
Rattus frugivorus		96	13 (13.5)
Rattus norvegicus	Giza	79	3 (3.8)	ELISA	Mikhail et al. (2017)
Rattus rattus	Giza	46	2 (4.3)	ELISA	Mikhail et al. (2017)

Viable T. gondii was isolated from brain pools by mice bioassay.

Viable T. gondii was isolated by both mice and cat bioassay.