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Table 21.

Trials to isolate viable T. gondii from tissues of food animals and birds in Egypt by mice bioassay

Host	Governorate	Serological test	Samples	No. tested	No. positive (%)	References
Pig	Cairo	IFA	Heart, liver, kidney, brain	1	1 (100)	Botros et al. (1973)^a
Pig	Cairo	MAT	Diaphragm	30	7 (23.3)	Ghattas (1999)^a
Chicken	Beheira	MAT	Heart, brain	49	19 (38.7)	Dubey et al. (2003)^a
Duck	Beheira	MAT	Heart, brain	3	1 (33.3)	Dubey et al. (2003)^a
Buffalo	Middle Delta	ND	NS	30 fresh	2 (6.6)	El-Tras and Tayel (2009)
Buffalo	Middle Delta	ND	NS	30 frozen	None	El-Tras and Tayel (2009)
Sheep	Cairo	LAT¹	Diaphragm	28	28 (100)	Hassanain et al. (2011)^a
FR chicken	Different	ND	Hear, brain, breast	60	NC	El-Newishy et al. (2012)
C chicken	Different	ND	Hear, brain, breast	170	NC	El-Newishy et al. (2012)
Sheep	Cairo, Giza, Kalubiya	ELISA¹⁷	Diaphragm, thigh muscles	75	8 (10.7)	El Fadaly et al. (2017)^a
Goat				49	4 (8.2)
Cattle				16	None
Buffalo				7	None
Camel				4	2 (50.0)
FR chicken				9	2 (22.2)
Sheep	Cairo	OTRT	Diaphragm	34	15 (44.1)	Abd El-Razik et al. (2018)^a
Goat	Cairo	OTRT	Diaphragm	3	3 (100)	Abd El-Razik et al. (2018)^a

ND, not done; NC, not clear; FR, free range; C, commercially farmed.

The studied samples were from seropositive animals.