Evaluation of two Toxoplasma gondii serologic tests used in a serosurvey of domestic cats in California

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 806-816

  Dabritz, Haydee A ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Miller, Melissa A ^a,b   Lappin, Michael R ^a,c   Atwill, E Robert ^a   Packham, Andrea E ^a   Melli, Ann C ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOASSAY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FELID; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROTOZOAN; VIRUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CARNIVORA; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 34848909268     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-996R.1     Document Type: Article

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