Seropositivity and risk factors associated with toxoplasma gondii infection in wild birds from Spain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Cabezón, Oscar ^a   García Bocanegra, Ignacio ^b   Molina López, Rafael ^c   Marco, Ignasi ^a   Blanco, Juan M ^d   Höfle, Ursula ^e   Margalida, Antoni ^f,g   Bach Raich, Esther ^a   Darwich, Laila ^a   Echeverría, Israel ^a   Obón, Elena ^c   Hernández, Mauro ^h   Lavín, Santiago ^a   Dubey, Jitender P ⁱ   Almería, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d Center for Studies on Iberian Raptors   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^f Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h Clínica Veterinaria Oftalmológica OCUVET   (Spain)

ⁱ AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARNIVORA; CICONIIFORMES; DIET; EAGLE; EURASIAN SPOONBILL; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; GRUIFORMES; HARRIER; HERON; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OSPREY; OWL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; STORK; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VULTURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84055182556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029549     Document Type: Article

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