Toxocara Seroprevalence among Clinically Healthy Individuals, Pregnant Women and Psychiatric Patients and Associated Risk Factors in Shandong Province, Eastern China

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Cong, Wei ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Xuan ^a,b   Zhou, Na ^c   Yu, Chang Zheng ^d   Chen, Jia ^a   Wang, Xiang Yang ^e   Li, Bing ^f   Qian, Ai Dong ^b   Zhu, Xing Quan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wendeng Central Hospital of Weihai   (China)

^e Wendeng Municipal Hospital   (China)

^f Wendeng Center Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEROPREVALENCE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; TOXOCARIASIS; URBAN AREA; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TOXOCARA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930647708     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003082     Document Type: Article

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