Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in slaughtered pigs in the Czech Republic

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1369-1371

  Bartova E ^a   Sedlak K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b Statni veterinarni ustav Praha   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Natural infection; Neosporosis; Serological survey; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COCCIDIOSIS; COINFECTION; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; NEOSPORA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; SUIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 80053082499     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001041     Document Type: Article

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