Age-related Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in Dutch wild boar inconsistent with lifelong persistence of antibodies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Opsteegh, Marieke ^a,b   Swart, Arno ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^a   Dekkers, Leo ^c   van der Giessen, Joke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; RAW MEAT; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD BOAR; AGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 79251622712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016240     Document Type: Article

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