Short report: Prevalence of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in northern Egypt

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-267

  Ibrahim, Hany M ^a   Huang, Penglong ^a   Salem, Tarek A ^b   Talaat, Roba M ^b   Nasr, Mahmoud I ^b   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a  

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

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NEOSPORA CANINUM ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RABBIT; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA;

BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RABBITS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 59649123704     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.263     Document Type: Article

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