Natural toxoplasma gondii infections in european brown hares and mountain hares in finland: Proportional mortality rate, antibody prevalence, and genetic characterization

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-163

  Jokelainen, Pikka ^a   Isomursu, Marja ^b   Näreaho, Anu ^a   Oksanen, Antti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antibody prevalence; Genotype; Immunohistochemistry; Lepus europaeus; Lepus timidus; Proportional mortality rate; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

LEPUS; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HARE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HARES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 79952265457     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.1.154     Document Type: Article

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