Haemonchus contortus: Conventional and molecular identification and characterization via sequencing-based phylogenetic analysis in sheep
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study, conducted from 01-October-2023 to 28-February-2024, was to determine the prevalence and genetic diversity of Haemonchus contortus Infection from sheep in Al-Diwaniyah slaughterhouse, it was carried out to investigate the level of infection at two levels stages; adult's animal, and human, and also helped us to evaluate the genetic similarities between local isolates from Iraq in comparison with other strains of H. contortus from all over the world. In the slaughterhouse in Al-Diwaniyah City, 250 carcasses were sampled. The samples were divided into two tubes, one of them used for microscopic examination by lacto phenol-solution and the other used for molecular tests by using 70% ethanol. Targeting the β-tubulin region by PCR was done, which was followed with the positive PCR-based sequencing. The findings of this study revealed high prevalence of H. contortus infection rate in sheep which leads to parasite transmission among the animals. In addition, a high level of genetic similarities was seen between local isolates from Iraq and strains from Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, the USA, and the Netherland. Overall, this study concludes that the level of infections by H. contortus. High genetic similarities, with world strains, indicating high diversity and common ancestor.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".