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Preliminary study on the occurrence of Toxoplasma gondii in Ixodes ricinus ticks from north-western Poland with the use of PCR.
Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine : AAEM - 1 Jan 2008
Sroka Jacek, Wójcik-Fatla Angelina, Zwoliński Jacek, Zajac Violetta, Sawczuk Marek, Dutkiewicz Jacek
Abstract excerpt
A batch of 259 Ixodes ricinus ticks collected by flagging in woodlands of north-western Poland (Szczecin area) was examined for the presence of Toxoplasma gondii DNA with nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Positive isolates were genotyped with the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of B1 gene marker. Another batch of 340 I. ricinus ticks from Szczecin area was homogenized and inoculated...
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