Evaluation of IFA, MAT, ELISAs and immunoblotting for the detection of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in paired serum and aqueous humour samples from experimentally infected pigs

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-242

  Garcia, João Luis ^a   Gennari, Solange Maria ^b   Navarro, Italmar Teodorico ^a   Machado, Rosângela Zacarias ^c   Headley, Selwyn Arligton ^d   Vidotto, Odilon ^a   da Silva Guimarães Jr , José ^a   Bugni, Felipe Monteiro ^a   Igarashi, Michelle ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aqueous humour; ELISA; IFAT; MAT; PCR; Pigs; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 37149012749     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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