Toxoplasmosis in rabbits confirmed by strain isolation: A potential risk of infection among agricultural workers

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-128

  Sroka, Jacek ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Tós Luty, Sabina ^a   Latuszyńska, Jadwiga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cysts; Epidemiology; Rabbit; Strain isolation; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; APATHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION RISK; INOCULATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN DEFECT; SPLEEN; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TISSUE SECTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRAIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0038801600     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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