Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and associated risk factors in Huicholes in Mexico

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Alvarado Esquivel, Cosme ^a   Pacheco Vega, Sandy Janet ^a   Hernández Tinoco, Jesús ^a   Sánchez Anguiano, Luis Francisco ^a   Berumen Segovia, Luis Omar ^a   Rodríguez Acevedo, Francisco Javier Imard ^b   Beristain García, Isabel ^a   Rábago Sánchez, Elizabeth ^a   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^c,d   Campillo Ruiz, Federico ^b   Güereca García, Oscar Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^b Institute for Scientific Research Dr Roberto Rivera Damm Juárez University of Durango State ^*  (Mexico)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Roche Molecular Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Huicholes; Seroprevalence; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904901542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-301     Document Type: Article

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