Isolation of viable toxoplasma gondii from feral guinea fowl (numida meleagris) and domestic rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) from brazil

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 842-845

  Dubey, J P ^a   Passos, L M F ^a,b   Rajendran, C ^a   Ferreira, L R ^a   Gennari, S M ^a,c   Su, C ^a,d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANTIBODY; BIOASSAY; BRAIN; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FELID; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GAMEBIRD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; INFECTIVITY; POLYMORPHISM; PROTOZOAN; RAPTOR; SERUM;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAT; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOWL; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE GROWTH; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIABILITY; RABBIT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIRD DISEASES; BRAIN; BRAZIL; CATS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC MARKERS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYSTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RABBITS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

BRAZIL;

MUS; NUMIDA MELEAGRIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 80053941178     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2728.1     Document Type: Article

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