High prevalence of viable Toxoplasma gondii infection in market weight pigs from a farm in Massachusetts

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1234-1238

  Dubey, J P ^b   Gamble, H R ^b   Hill, D ^b   Sreekumar, C ^b   Romand, S ^a   Thulliez, P ^a  

^a Institut de Puericulture   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SAFETY; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; HEART; MEAT; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TONGUE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; PROTOZOA; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0036939248     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1234:hpovtg]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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