Anti-Toxoplasma antibody prevalence, primary infection rate, and risk factors in a study of toxoplasmosis in 4,466 pregnant women in Japan

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-367

  Sakikawa, Makiko ^a   Noda, Shunichi ^b   Hanaoka, Masachi ^a   Nakayama, Hirotoshi ^a   Hojo, Satoshi ^a   Kakinoki, Shigeko ^a   Nakata, Maki ^a   Yasuda, Takashi ^a   Ikenoue, Tsuyomu ^b   Kojima, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD POISONING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAW MEAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANT WOMEN; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857984742     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.05486-11     Document Type: Article

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