Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among immigrant and native pregnant women in Eastern Spain

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1447-1452

  Ramos, José M ^a,b   Milla, Afredo ^a   Rodríguez, Juan C ^a   Padilla, Sergio ^a,b   Masiá, Mar ^a,b   Gutiérrez, Félix ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNE STATUS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 82955233896     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2393-5     Document Type: Article

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