High seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in a subset of Mexican patients with work accidents and low socioeconomic status

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Alvarado Esquivel, Cosme ^a   Torres Castorena, Alejandro ^b   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^c,d   Estrada Martínez, Sergio ^a   Urbina Álvarez, Jesús D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Roche Molecular Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

case control study; epidemiology; seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii; work accidents

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POPULATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84855569109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-13     Document Type: Article

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