Seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic cats in The Netherlands

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 317-326

  Opsteegh, M ^a,b   Haveman, R ^a,b   Swart, A N ^a   Mensink Beerepoot, M E ^a   Hofhuis, A ^a   Langelaar, M F M ^a   van der Giessen, J W B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binary mixture analysis; Cats; Public health; Risk factors; Seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARASITOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84858795771     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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