Changing climate-changing pathogens: Toxoplasma gondii in North-Western Europe

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-24

  Meerburg, Bastiaan G ^a   Kijlstra, Aize ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVESTOCK; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; EUROPE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 67649598007     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1447-4     Document Type: Review

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