Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Myocastor coypus in a protected Italian wetland

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nardoni, Simona ^a   Angelici, Maria C ^b   Mugnaini, Linda ^a   Mancianti, Francesca ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Patologia Animale   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Myocastor coypus; n PCR.; seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii; wetland

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; MODIFIED AGGLUTINATION TEST; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RODENT; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WETLAND; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; MYOCASTORINAE; RODENTIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84155176706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-240     Document Type: Article

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