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Toxosafe: Risk of Infection of consumption meat with Toxoplasma gondii: optimization of detection, prevalence determination, genotyping and research into the immunological background of parasite clearance from tissues
Acronym
Toxosafe
Code
160I6714
Duration
01 February 2014 → 31 January 2018
Funding
Federal funding: various
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Microbiology
    • Systems biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
Keywords
Toxoplasma gondii
 
Project description
 

In order to verify the correlation between the seropositivity and the infectivity of the meat, will be positive-known companies can be selected and monitored: there will be piglet from weaning to slaughter are serologically tested monthly. At slaughter will be taken in tissue samples from the animals sero which will then be tested by means of qPCR for the presence of tissue cysts. From the PCR positive salen the infecting T. gondiistarn will be isolated by bio-assay so that this drop can be once gegenotypeed.