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PCR-RFLP genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii from chickens from Espírito Santo state, Southeast region, Brazil: new genotypes and a new SAG3 marker allele.
Veterinary parasitology - 18 Feb 2013
Pena H F J, Vitaliano S N, Beltrame M A V, Pereira F E L, Gennari S M, Soares R M
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Brazil is one of the regions with the highest prevalences of Toxoplasma gondii in humans and animals. Because free-range chickens become infected by feeding from ground contaminated with oocysts, the prevalence of T. gondii in this host has been widely used as an indicator of the strains prevalent in the environment. The genetic variability among T. gondii isolates from different healthy and sick hosts all over...
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