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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in commercial meat products as monitored by polymerase chain reaction--food for thought?
International journal for parasitology - 1 Aug 2002
Aspinall Tanya V, Marlee Damian, Hyde John E, Sims Paul F G
Abstract excerpt
DNA was extracted from 71 meat samples obtained from UK retail outlets. All of these DNA preparations gave the expected polymerase chain reaction products when amplified with primers specific for the species from which the meat originated. A second polymerase chain reaction analysis, using primers specific for the Toxoplasma gondii SAG2 locus, revealed the presence of this parasite in 27 of the meat samples....
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