Toxoplasma seroprevalence in a rural population in France: Detection of a household effect

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fromont, Emmanuelle Gilot ^a,c,d   Riche, Benjamin ^b,c,d,e   Rabilloud, Muriel ^b,c,d,e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RAW FOOD; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOIL INOCULATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VEGETABLE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXOPLASMA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649218440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-76     Document Type: Article

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