Prevalence of agglutinating antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona in beavers (Castor canadensis) from Massachusetts

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1228-1229

  Jordan, Carly N ^a   Kaur, Taranjit ^a   Koenen, Kiana ^b   DeStefano, Stephen ^b   Zajac, Anne M ^a   Lindsay, David S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; DILUTION; FILTER; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; RODENTIA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTORIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 28444462130     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-543R.1     Document Type: Article

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