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Isolation and genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii from free-range ducks in Malaysia.
Avian diseases - 1 Mar 2013
Puvanesuaran Vignesh R, Noordin Rahmah, Balakrishnan Venugopal
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasitic protozoan that infects nearly one-third of humans. The present study was performed to isolate and genotype T. gondii from free-range ducks in Malaysia. Sera, heads, and hearts from 205 ducks were obtained from four states in Peninsular Malaysia, and 30 (14.63%) sera were found to be seropositive when assayed with the modified agglutination test (MAT > or = 1:6). All the positive...
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