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Toxoplasma gondii in free-ranging wild small felids from Brazil: molecular detection and genotypic characterization.
Veterinary parasitology - 8 Nov 2013
Cañón-Franco W A, Araújo F A P, López-Orozco N, Jardim M M A, Keid L B, Dalla-Rosa C, Cabral A D, Pena H F J, Gennari S M
Abstract excerpt
Brazil harbors the largest number of wild Neotropical felid species, with ten of the twelve species recorded in the American continent. Although these animals are considered to be definitive hosts for Toxoplasma gondii, there are few descriptions of the parasite in these species. Here, we performed a molecular detection of T. gondii by amplification of the marker ITS-1 from tissue samples obtained from 90...
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