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Molecular characterization of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from cats in Spain.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Oct 2008
Montoya A, Miró G, Mateo M, Ramírez C, Fuentes I
Abstract excerpt
Cats are important in the epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii because felids are the only definitive hosts that can excrete environmentally resistant oocysts. Fresh samples of brain from 103 Spanish cats with antibodies to T. gondii were analyzed for T. gondii DNA using nested-PCR; 47 (45.5%) were found to be positive. Further characterization of DNA from 46 cats using RFLP-PCR at the 3' and 5' ends of the SAG2...
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