Serological screening for hydatidosis was carried out on s
heep slaughtered at the Sokoto a
battoir, Northwestern
Nigeria. A total of 186 serum samples obtained from randomly selected animals were analysed for antigen
-
antibody responses using
Echinococcus granulosus
IgG Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) kit
(RIDASCREEN
®
). Postmortem insp
ection for the presence of cyst was also carried out on the selected animals. The
study did not observe any antigen
-
antibody reaction in any of the samples screened and no cyst was found at
post
-
mortem inspection of the selected sheep. The zero prevalence
recorded suggest
s
the need
to
employ some
other
more
sensitive diagnostic techniques to ascertain the result obtained in this study.
