Identification of an atypical strain of Toxoplasma gondii as the cause of a waterborne outbreak of toxoplasmosis in Santa Isabel do Ivai, Brazil

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1226-1233

  Vaudaux, Jean D ^a,h   Muccioli, Cristina ^f   James, Erick R ^g   Silveira, Claudio ^f   Magargal, Spencer L ^c   Jung, Calvin ^g   Dubey, J P ^d   Jones, Jeffrey L ^e   Doymaz, Mehmet Z ^b   Bruckner, David A ^b   Belfort Jr , Rubens ^f   Holland, Gary N ^a   Grigg, Michael E ^c  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHICKEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FORAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77956993225     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656397     Document Type: Article

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