Molecules to modeling: Toxoplasma gondii oocysts at the human-animal-environment interface

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 217-231

  VanWormer, Elizabeth ^a   Fritz, Heather ^b   Shapiro, Karen ^a,b   Mazet, Jonna A K ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental resistance; Land use change; Modeling; Molecular characterization; One Health; Oocyst; Toxoplasma gondii; Transport; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLLUTION; REVIEW; SPECIES HABITAT; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL WALL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; OOCYSTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84878937527     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2012.10.006     Document Type: Review

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