Antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii in the Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) from the Solomon Islands

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 965-967

  Omata, Yoshitaka ^a   Hammond, Ted ^b   Itoh, Keiko ^c   Murata, Koichi ^c  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hammond Consultant Inc   (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; PARASITOLOGY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MELANESIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

NEOSPORA CANINUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 24944592373     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3457RN.1     Document Type: Article

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