Seroepidemiology of infection with Toxoplasma gondii in migrant agricultural workers living in poverty in Durango, Mexico

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alvarado Esquivel, Cosme ^a   Campillo Ruiz, Federico ^b   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^b Servicios de Salud de Durango ^*  (Mexico)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Roche Molecular Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Migrant workers; Seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; EDUCATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOME; HOUSING; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEMORY DISORDER; MEXICO; MIGRANT WORKER; MILK; POVERTY; RAW FOOD; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SUBURBAN AREA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; URBAN AREA; VEGETABLE; AGRICULTURE; BLOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOXOPLASMA;

SYNCOPE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84876914010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-113     Document Type: Article

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