Serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii, feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukaemia virus in urban stray cats in Belgium

Veterinary Record

Volumn 151, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 626-629

  Dorny, P ^a   Speybroeck, N ^a   Verstraete, S ^b   Baeke, M ^b   De Becker, A ^b   Berkvens, D ^a   Vercruysse, J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CAT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FEMALE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BELGIUM; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, FELINE; LENTIVIRUS INFECTIONS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; LEUKEMIA, FELINE; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0037164439     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.151.21.626     Document Type: Article

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