Toxoplasma gondii in sheep and goats: Seroprevalence and potential risk factors under dairy husbandry practices

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 190, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 340-348

  Tzanidakis, Nikolaos ^a   Maksimov, Pavlo ^b   Conraths, Franz J ^b   Kiossis, Evaggelos ^c   Brozos, Christos ^c   Sotiraki, Smaragda ^a   Schares, Gereon ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ELISA; Infection risk; Prevalence; Small ruminants; TgSAG1; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; TGSAG1 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COASTAL WATERS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT; GREECE; NONHUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DAIRYING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; GREECE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84868211259     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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