Intervention strategies to reduce human toxoplasma gondii disease burden

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-107

  Opsteegh, Marieke ^a   Kortbeek, Titia M ^a   Havelaar, Arie H ^a,b   Van Der Giessen, Joke W B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Disease burden; Intervention; Prevention; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FREEZING; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACCINATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; CAT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PET ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; PETS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84983354233     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu721     Document Type: Article

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