%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Mercier, A.
%A Garba, M.
%A Bonnabau, H.
%A Kane, M.
%A Rossi, J.P.
%A Dardé, M.L.
%A Dobigny, Gauthier
%T Toxoplasmosis seroprevalence in urban rodents : a survey in Niamey, Niger
%D 2013
%L fdi:010060500
%G ENG
%J Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
%@ 0074-0276
%K Toxoplasma gondii ; epidemiology ; zoonotic disease ; Africa ; Sahel
%K NIGER ; SAHEL
%M ISI:000321392900002
%N 4
%P 399-407
%R 10.1590/0074-0276108042013002
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060500
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers19-10/010060500.pdf
%V 108
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X A serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii was conducted on 766 domestic and peridomestic rodents from 46 trapping sites throughout the city of Niamey, Niger. A low seroprevalence was found over the whole town with only 1.96% of the rodents found seropositive. However, differences between species were important, ranging from less than 2% in truly commensal Mastomys natalensis, Rattus rattus and Mus musculus, while garden-associated Arvicanthis niloticus displayed 9.1% of seropositive individuals. This is in line with previous studies on tropical rodents - that we reviewed here - which altogether show that Toxoplasma seroprevalence in rodent is highly variable, depending on many factors such as locality and/or species. Moreover, although we were not able to decipher statistically between habitat or species effect, such a contrast between Nile grass rats and the other rodent species points towards a potentially important role of environmental toxoplasmic infection. This would deserve to be further scrutinised since intra-city irrigated cultures are extending in Niamey, thus potentially increasing Toxoplasma circulation in this yet semi-arid region. As far as we are aware of, our study is one of the rare surveys of its kind performed in Sub-Saharan Africa and the first one ever conducted in the Sahel.
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