Geographic Separation of Domestic and Wild Strains of Toxoplasma gondii in French Guiana Correlates with a Monomorphic Version of Chromosome1a

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Khan, Asis ^a,e   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^b   Mercier, Aurélien ^b   Demar, Magalie ^c   Simon, Stéphane ^c   Dardé, Marie Laure ^b   Wang, Qiuling ^a   Verma, Shiv Kumar ^d   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^d   Dubey, Jitender P ^d   Sibley, L David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME1A; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CHROMOSOMES; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907588661     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003182     Document Type: Article

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