Prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in pigeons (Columba livia) in Taiwan

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 871-

  Tsai, Yu Jen ^a,b   Chung, Wen Cheng ^c   Lei, Hsien Hsien ^b   Wu, Ying Iing ^b  

^a Taipei Municipal Institute for Animal Health   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; RAIN;

ANTIBODY; BIRD; BLOOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEMOPARASITE; PROTOZOAN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PIGEON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIRD DISEASES; COLUMBIDAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TAIWAN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33748923084     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-716R2.1     Document Type: Article

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