Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: A retrospective case-control study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Flegr, Jaroslav ^a   Havlícek, Jan ^a   Kodym, Petr ^b   Malý, Marek ^b   Smahel, Zbyněk ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REACTION TIME; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TOXOPLASMA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STATISTICS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 2942620300     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-2-11     Document Type: Article

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