Toxoplasma gondii prevalence in food animals and rodents in different regions of China: Isolation, genotyping and mouse pathogenicity

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Cheng, Hua Wei ^b   Huang, Kai Quan ^a   Xu, Yuan Hong ^b   Li, Yong Nian ^c   Du, Jian ^b   Yu, Li ^b   Luo, Qing Li ^b   Wei, Wei ^b   Jiang, Ling ^b   Shen, Ji Long ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genotyping; PCR RFLP; Toxoplasma gondii; Type China 1; Virulence

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIRD; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; CHICKEN; CHINA; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHEEP; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE; VOLE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MURIDAE; MUS; RATTUS FLAVIPECTUS; RODENTIA; SUIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHICKENS; CHINA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; POULTRY DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884292619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-273     Document Type: Article

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