Risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild rodents from Central Coastal California and a review of T. gondii prevalence in rodents

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 675-683

  Dabritz, Haydee A ^a,b   Miller, Melissa A ^a,c   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Packham, Andrea E ^a   Atwill, E Robert ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; SERUM; WILD POPULATION;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOUSING; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MOUSE; NEOTOMA; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RAT; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SEASON; SQUIRREL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARVICOLINAE; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICE; PEROMYSCUS; RATS; RISK FACTORS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SIGMODONTINAE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

CALIFORNIA; MORRO BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MURIDAE; MUS; PEROMYSCUS SP.; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 47349107959     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1342R.1     Document Type: Article

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