In Romania, exposure to Toxoplasma gondii occurs twice as often in swine raised for familial consumption as in hunted wild boar, but occurs rarely, if ever, among fattening pigs raised in confinement

Parasitology Research

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2403-2407

  Paştiu, Anamaria Ioana ^a   Györke, Adriana ^a   Blaga, Radu ^b   Mircean, Viorica ^a   Rosenthal, Benjamin Martin ^c   Cozma, Vasile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD BOAR;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; ROMANIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84878723684     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-013-3353-z     Document Type: Article

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