Prevalence of <i>Cysticercus bovis</i> in Australian cattle

Pearse, B. H. G.; Traub, Rebecca J.; Davis, Andrew M.; Cobbold, Rowland N.; Vanderlinde, Paul

doi:10.1111/j.1751-0813.2010.00593.x

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“…This suggests lack of uniformity in meat inspection and documentation even among abattoirs in Israel. This finding is in line with other results shown in reports conducted around the world including Europe, Africa, Australia and America where the prevalence ranged greatly even in the same country (Pawlowski and Schultz, 1972; Cabaret et al., 2002; Opara et al., 2006; Kebede, 2008; Pearse et al., 2010). As mentioned before, all of these data are based on meat inspection, which has a low sensitivity for the detection of C. bovis (McCool, 1979; Kyvsgaard et al., 1990).…”

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“…As the time required for Cysticercus development is at least 6 weeks, it is impossible that the calves were infected during their quarantine. Australian data from the 1960s points on a prevalence of 0.21% of BC (Fewster, 1967) and a recent study from 2008 found a dramatically lower prevalence of only 0.0002% in exporting abattoirs (Pearse et al., 2010). This may imply that these calves were infected in the ship during transport to Israel or in the pre‐shipping quarantine.…”

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A Change in the Epidemiology of Bovine Cysticercosis in Israel Between 1973 and 2008 Due to Import of Live Cattle

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Brenner

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et al. 2012

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

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Bovine cysticercosis (BC) is an important disease because of its zoonotic nature. There is a significant variation in the prevalence of BC in different countries, ranging from <0.01% to more than 20%. In this study, we followed the changes of BC prevalence in Israel during the last four decades and examined its association with import of live cattle. During 1973-2007, 629,549 cattle were subjected to post-mortem inspection conducted in 'Marbek' slaughterhouse located in the south of Israel. A specific comparison was made between the prevalence of BC in local and imported cattle during 2003-2007. Of 629,549 cattle, 2568 were infected with Cysticercus bovis (0.4%). From 1980, there was a gradual decrease in the prevalence of BC (R(2) = 0.53) with exceptional peaks. Moreover, from 1973 to 1998, only 4% of the documented cases appeared in outbreaks as opposed to 38% after 1998 when mass importation of live cattle to Israel was initiated. All of these late outbreak cases appeared in imported cattle of which 95% originated from Australia. During the years 2002-2007, importation from Australia was found as a significant risk factor for infection with BC, with prevalence in these cattle reaching 1.8% in 2006. The time from importation to BC detection suggests that infection occurred either in Australia or during the transport into Israel. We conclude that despite a reduction in the prevalence of BC as a result of a possible improvement in sanitary conditions at the farms, meticulous meat inspection is still essential in Israel and possibly in other developed countries exporting and importing live cattle.

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A Change in the Epidemiology of Bovine Cysticercosis in Israel Between 1973 and 2008 Due to Import of Live Cattle

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Brenner

Markovitcs

et al. 2012

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“…We would like to comment on the first national abattoir survey of metacestodes of Taenia saginata (aka Cysticercus bovis (beef measles)) in cattle in Australia 1 . We agree with the conclusions of this study, which found no evidence of T. saginata in ∼500,000 slaughtered cattle from across Australia during a single month.…”

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Prevalence of Cysticercus bovis (beef measles) in Australian cattle

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“…Pearce et al. recently concluded that bovine cysticercosis in Australian cattle was ‘extremely rare’ . However, a characteristic feature of bovine cysticercosis in countries where the parasite occurs uncommonly in cattle, such as Australia, is ‘cysticercosis storms’, which occur as a result of sudden exposure of immunologically naïve cattle to the eggs of T. saginata .…”

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