Additional haplogroups of Toxoplasma gondii out of Africa: Population structure and mouse-virulence of strains from Gabon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Mercier, Aurélien ^a   Devillard, Sébastien ^b   Ngoubangoye, Barthélémy ^c   Bonnabau, Henri ^d   Bañuls, Anne Laure ^e   Durand, Patrick ^e   Salle, Bettina ^c   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^a,f   Dardé, Marie Laure ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c Centre de Primatologie   (Gabon)

^d LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABON; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOUSE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RURAL AREA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; GABON; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78649898376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000876     Document Type: Article

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