Serosurvey for Toxoplasma gondii in arctic foxes and possible sources of infection in the high Arctic of Svalbard

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 6-12

  Prestrud, Kristin Wear ^a   Åsbakk, Kjetil ^a   Fuglei, Eva ^b   Mørk, Torill ^c   Stien, Audun ^d   Ropstad, Erik ^a   Tryland, Morten ^a   Gabrielsen, Geir Wing ^b   Lydersen, Christian ^b   Kovacs, Kit M ^b   Loonen, Maarten J J E ^e   Sagerup, Kjetil ^f   Oksanen, Antti ^g  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; Branta leucopsis; Larus hyperboreus; Microtus rossiaemeridionalis; Odobenus rosmarus; Rangifer tarandus; Rissa tridactyla; Svalbard; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; FOX; GOOSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REINDEER; SEAL; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARVICOLINAE; BIRDS; FEMALE; FOXES; MALE; REINDEER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SVALBARD; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; WALRUSES;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; CANIDAE; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; LARUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; MICROTUS ROSSIAEMERIDIONALIS; MURIDAE; ODOBENIDAE; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 35648936374     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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