Serotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in cats (Felis domesticus) reveals predominance of type II infections in Germany

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Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Maksimov, Pavlo ^a   Zerweck, Johannes ^b   Dubey, Jitender P ^c   Pantchev, Nikola ^d   Frey, Caroline F ^e   Maksimov, Aline ^a   Reimer, Ulf ^b   Schutkowski, Mike ^f   Hosseininejad, Morteza ^g   Ziller, Mario ^a   Conraths, Franz J ^a   Schares, Gereon ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Vet Med Labor GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GERMANY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SEROTYPING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; GERMANY; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84892412944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080213     Document Type: Article

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