Polyparasitism is associated with increased disease severity in Toxoplasma gondii-infected marine sentinel species

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gibson, Amanda K ^a   Raverty, Stephen ^b,c   Lambourn, Dyanna M ^d   Huggins, Jessica ^e   Magargal, Spencer L ^a   Grigg, Michael E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^e CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TOXOPLASMA; UNITED STATES;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 79957997114     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001142     Document Type: Article

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