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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Colombia, South America and genetic characterization of T. gondii isolates.
Veterinary parasitology - 10 Oct 2006
Dubey J P, Su C, Cortés J A, Sundar N, Gomez-Marin J E, Polo L J, Zambrano L, Mora L E, Lora F, Jimenez J, Kwok O C H, Shen S K, Zhang X, Nieto A, Thulliez P
Abstract excerpt
Cats are important in the epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection because they are the only hosts that can excrete the environmentally-resistant oocysts. In the present study, prevalence of T. gondii was determined in serum, feces, and tissues of 170 unwanted cats from Colombia, South America. Antibodies to T. gondii were assayed by the modified agglutination test and found in 77 of 170 (45.2%) cats with...
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