Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among horses in Tunisia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Boughattas, Sonia ^a   Bergaoui, Ramzi ^b   Essid, Rym ^a   Aoun, Karim ^a   Bouratbine, Aida ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b University Tunis El Manar   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

antibodies; horse; MAT; seroprevalence; Toxoplasma; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUNISIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; SEX RATIO; TOXOPLASMA;

EQUIDAE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TUNISIA;

EID: 81455162134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-218     Document Type: Article

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