Environmental exposure of pregnant women to infection with Toxoplasma gondii - State of the art

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-214

  Bojar, Iwona ^a   Szymańska, Jolanta ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Pregnant women; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOKED FOOD; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 79954996873     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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