Genotypes and Mouse Virulence of Toxoplasma gondii Isolates from Animals and Humans in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Chen, He ^a   Liu, Daohua ^c   Huo, Xingxing ^a   Gao, Jiangmei ^d   Song, Xiaorong ^a   Xu, Xiucai ^a   Huang, Kaiquan ^b   Liu, Wenqi ^e   Wang, Yong ^f   Lu, Fangli ^g   Lun, Zhao Rong ^d   Luo, Qingli ^a   Wang, Xuelong ^a   Shen, Jilong ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c Anhui Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CATS; CHINA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; SUIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84872141822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053483     Document Type: Article

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