Isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 821-823

  Dubey, J P ^a   Fair, P A ^a,b   Sundar, N ^a   Velmurugan, G ^a   Kwok, O C H ^a   McFee, W E ^a,b   Majumdar, D ^a,c   Su, C ^a,c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BIOASSAY; DOLPHIN; GENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; SERUM;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEART; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MARINE MAMMAL; MODIFIED AGGLUTINATION TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; CATS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HEART; MICE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

CALIFORNIA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 48349144858     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1444.1     Document Type: Article

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