Toxoplasma gondii infection and liver disease: A case-control study in a Northern Mexican population

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Alvarado Esquivel, Cosme ^a   Torres Berumen, José Luis ^b   Estrada Martínez, Sergio ^a   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^c,d   Mercado Suarez, Miguel Francisco ^b  

^a Jurez University of Durango State   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Roche Molecular Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LIVER AMEBIASIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEXICO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUAIL; QUAIL MEAT; RABBIT MEAT; REFLEX DISORDER; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP MEAT; SOCIAL STATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VENISON; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; PHASIANIDAE; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 79955864258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-75     Document Type: Article

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