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Tissue distribution and molecular characterization of chicken isolates of Toxoplasma gondii from Peru.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Oct 2004
Dubey J P, Levy M Z, Sreekumar C, Kwok O C H, Shen S K, Dahl E, Thulliez P, Lehmann T
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in free-ranging chickens is a good indicator of the prevalence of T. gondii oocysts in the soil because chickens feed from the ground. The prevalence of T. gondii antibodies in sera of 50 free-range chickens (Gallus domesticus) from Peru was 26% on the basis of the modified agglutination test (MAT). Hearts, pectoral muscles, and brains of seropositive (MAT > or =1:5) chickens...
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