Ocular toxoplasmosis I: Parasitology, epidemiology and public health

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-94

  Furtado, João M ^a   Winthrop, Kevin L ^a,b   Butler, Nicholas J ^c   Smith, Justine R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Public health; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE POTASSIUM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASIA; BRADYZOITE; CHORIORETINITIS; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; EYE INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAND WASHING; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MEAT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OOCYST; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAW MEAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPOROCYST; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UVEITIS; VEGETABLE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CHORIORETINITIS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84873078168     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2012.02821.x     Document Type: Review

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