Toxoplasma gondii infection in adult llamas (Lama glama) and vicunas (Vicugna vicugna) in the Peruvian Andean region

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 93-97

  Chavez Velasquez A ^a   Alvarez Garcia G ^b   Gomez Bautista M ^b   Casas Astos, E ^a   Serrano Martinez E ^a,b   Ortega Mora, L M ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antigens recognition; Llama; Peru; Seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii; Vicuna

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BOVIDS; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOCUMENTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LAMA GLAMA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PERU; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SAMPLE; SEROPREVALENCE; SERUM; SPECIES; TITRIMETRY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VICUGNA VICUGNA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; PERU; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

COCCIDIA; LAMA (CAMEL); LAMA GLAMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VICUGNA VICUGNA;

EID: 18844393411     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.03.023     Document Type: Article

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