Protective activity against oocyst shedding in cats vaccinated with crude rhoptry proteins of the Toxoplasma gondii by the intranasal route

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 197-206

  Garcia, João Luis ^a   Navarro, Italmar Teodorico ^a   Biazzono, Luciane ^a   Freire, Roberta Lemos ^a   Junior, José da Silva Guimarães ^a   Cryssafidis, Andréas L ^a   Bugni, Felipe Monteiro ^a   Cunha, Ivo Alexandre Leme da ^a   Hamada, Fernando N ^a   Dias, Renata Cristina Ferreira ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cats; Nasal vaccine; Rhoptry; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; QUIL A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VACCINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OOCYSTS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33947247922     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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