Infection during the First Gestation of Holstein Heifers That Consume Food Contaminated Naturally with Zearalenone under Field Conditions.

Background: This work studied the natural infection of during the first gestation of heifers in a dairy farm in animals consuming a ration co ntaminated naturally with Zearalenone (ZEA), and to find out effect of mycotoxin in the levels of estrogen (E) and progesterone (P4) and that's relation to the infection to and in the abortions.

Methods: The study was conducted in a dairy farm located in El Llano municipality, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2013. Two groups were formed, the group "A" with 20 seronegative animals to , and group "B" with 20 seropositive.

Taenia pisiformis cysticercosis induces decreased prolificacy and increased progesterone levels in rabbits.

Reproductive alterations in hosts infected by parasites have been recognized in several phyla, especially in arthropods and mollusks, but it has been less studied in higher vertebrates, particularly in mammals. In the present study, ten eight week-old female New Zealand rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were either infected with Taenia pisiformis eggs or uninfected, and 7 weeks later they were mated. We found that serum progesterone levels were increased during pregnancy in infected does.