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Prevalence of viable Toxoplasma gondii in beef, chicken, and pork from retail meat stores in the United States: risk assessment to consumers.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Oct 2005
Dubey J P, Hill D E, Jones J L, Hightower A W, Kirkland E, Roberts J M, Marcet P L, Lehmann T, Vianna M C B, Miska K, Sreekumar C, Kwok O C H, Shen S K, Gamble H R
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of viable Toxoplasma gondii was determined in 6,282 samples (2,094 each of beef, chicken, and pork) obtained from 698 retail meat stores from 28 major geographic areas of the United States. Each sample consisted of a minimum of 1 kg of meat purchased from the retail meat case. To detect viable T. gondii, meat samples were fed to T. gondii-free cats and feces of cats were examined for oocyst...
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