Survey to determine the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in British sheep flocks

Veterinary Record

Volumn 169, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 582-

  Hutchinson, J P ^a   Wear, A R ^a   Lambton, S L ^a   Smith, R P ^a   Pritchard, G C ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 82255193176     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.d5764     Document Type: Review

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