Toxoplasma gondii infection in sentinel and free-range chickens from Argentina

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 184, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 116-121

  More G ^a,b   Maksimov, P ^c   Pardini, L ^a,b   Herrmann, D C ^c   Bacigalupe, D ^a   Maksimov, A ^c   Basso, W ^a,b,d   Conraths, F J ^c   Schares, G ^c   Venturini, M C ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chicken; Genotype; Multi locus genotyping; Sentinel; Toxoplasma gondii; Virulence

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENOTYPE; HEART; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; CHICKENS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENOTYPE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; GALLUS GALLUS; MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84855931742     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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