Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in raptors from France

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 172-173

  Aubert, Dominique ^a   Terrier, Marie Eve ^b   Dumètre, Aurélien ^c   Barrat, Jacques ^b   Villena, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Accipiter nisus; Buteo buteo; Falco tinnunculus; Seroprevalence; Strix aluco; Toxoplasma gondii; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER NISUS; BUTEO BUTEO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALCONIFORMES; FRANCE; HAWK; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OWL; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIRD DISEASES; FALCONIFORMES; FRANCE; HAWKS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STRIGIFORMES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 42449117153     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-44.1.172     Document Type: Article

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