Investigation of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in cats of the Ankara region of Turkey using the Sabin-Feldman dye test and an indirect fluorescent antibody test

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 817-820

  Özkan, Ayşegü Taylan ^a   Çelebi, Bekir ^a   Babür, Cahit ^a   Lucio Forster, Araceli ^a,b   Bowman, Dwight D ^a,b   Lindsay, David S ^a,c  

^a Refik Saydam Hygiene Center   (Turkey)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BLOOD; DETECTION METHOD; DYE; FELID; FLUORESCENCE; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYE DILUTION CURVE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SABIN FELDMAN TEST; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DYE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; LIFE STYLE; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TURKEY;

ANKARA [ANKARA (PRV)]; ANKARA [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 51449113883     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1401.1     Document Type: Article

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