Serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii in wild waterfowl in Chukotka, Kamchatka, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 830-833

  Murao, Takehiro ^a   Omata, Yoshitaka ^a   Kano, Rika ^a,b   Murata, Shiro ^a,b   Okada, Tsukasa ^a,b   Konnai, Satoru ^a,b   Asakawa, Mitsuhiko ^a,c   Ohashi, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Onuma, Misao ^a,b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOASSAY; INOCULATION; PROTOZOAN; SERUM; WATERFOWL; WILD POPULATION;

ANAS; ANAS ACUTA; ANAS CRECCA; ANAS PENELOPE; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHUS; ANAS POECILORHYNCHA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANSER; ANSER ALBIFRONS; ANSER FABALIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DUCK; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOOSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIRD DISEASES; DUCKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEESE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; JAPAN; MALE; MICE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ASIA; CHUKCHI; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; KAMCHATKA; OBIHIRO; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER ALBIFRONS; AVES; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 51449092404     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1434.1     Document Type: Article

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