Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in wild white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) from Peru

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1232-

  Solorio, Mónica Romero ^a   Gennari, Solange M ^a   Soares, Herbert S ^a   Dubey, J P ^b   Hartley, Alfonso Christopher Zúñiga ^c   Ferreira, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Proyecto Areas Amazonía ^*  (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; BLOOD; MAMMAL; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PROTOZOAN; RURAL ECONOMY; SAMPLING; WILD POPULATION;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PERU; RURAL AREA; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARTIODACTYLA; FEMALE; MALE; MEAT; PERU; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; PERU;

ANIMALIA; TAYASSU PECARI; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 78650450165     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2583.1     Document Type: Article

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