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Genetic diversity of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from chickens from Brazil.
Veterinary parasitology - 7 Nov 2008
Dubey J P, Velmurugan G V, Chockalingam A, Pena H F J, de Oliveira L Nunes, Leifer C A, Gennari S M, Bahia Oliveira L M G, Su C
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Until recently, Toxoplasma gondii was considered clonal with very little genetic variability. Recent studies indicate that T. gondii isolates from Brazil are genetically and biologically different from T. gondii isolates from USA and Europe. In the present study, we retyped 151 free range chicken isolates from Brazil including 117 newly isolated samples from 11 geographically areas (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará,...
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