Pasture is a risk factor for Toxoplasma gondii infection in fattening pigs

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 224, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-32

  Wallander, Camilla ^a   Frössling, Jenny ^a,b   Dórea, Fernanda C ^b   Uggla, Arvid ^a   Vågsholm, Ivar ^a   Lundén, Anna ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Free range; Meat juice; Organic; Pig; Serology; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PASTURE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SWEDEN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BLOOD; PIG; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STANDARDS; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWEDEN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84966293664     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.05.005     Document Type: Article

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