Incidence of maternal Toxoplasma infections in pregnancy in Upper Austria, 2000-2007

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sagel, Ulrich ^a,b,c   Krämer, Alexander ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^a,d  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Analyse BioLab GmbH   (Austria)

^c Karl Landsteiner Institute for Implementation of Innovative Techniques in Cardiac Surgery   (Austria)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TOXOPLASMA;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83355164007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-348     Document Type: Article

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