Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, and Leishmania spp. infections and risk factors for cats from Brazil

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1009-1013

  Coelho, Willian Marinho Dourado ^a   Do Amarante, Alessandro Francisco Talamini ^a   De Carvalho Apolinário, Juliana ^a   Coelho, Natalia Marinho Dourado ^a   De Lima, Valéria Marçal Felix ^a   Perri, Silvia Helena Venturoli ^a   Bresciani, Katia Denise Saraiva ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREED; CAT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COCCIDIOSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOOD HABITS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NEOSPORA; RATS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; RATTUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 83155181704     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2461-x     Document Type: Article

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