Toxoplasma gondii abortion storm in sheep on a Texas farm and isolation of mouse virulent atypical genotype T. gondii from an aborted lamb from a chronically infected ewe

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 192, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 129-136

  Edwards, John F ^a   Dubey, J P ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Epidemiology; Sheep; Texas; Toxoplasma gondii; Transmission

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; EWE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART; LAMB; MODIFIED AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHEEP; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY ABORTION; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMAL; FETUS DEATH; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIRULENCE;

MUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ABORTED FETUS; ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TEXAS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84871710380     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.09.037     Document Type: Article

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