Toxoplasma gondii in Romanian household cats: Evaluation of serological tests, epidemiology and risk factors

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-328

  Györke, Adriana ^a   Opsteegh, Marieke ^b   Mircean, Viorica ^a   Iovu, Anamaria ^a   Cozma, Vasile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cat; Risk; Romania; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; ROMANIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 81055140452     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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